Too late for Libya?
Nigel Dodds and Andrew Mackinlay are in Downing Street today raising their demand that Libya should be asked to provide compensation for the victims of the terrorist acts carried out with the guns and explosives it supplied. It's logical that if French and US victims received compensation those closer to home should get equal treatment. But as I reported the British government showed no interest in raising the matter as it led the push to have the sanctions against Libya lifted by the UN. The use of the words "Libya dossier" in my piece was a reference to the so called dodgy dossier on Iraq which was then in the news.
Should Gordon Brown be persuaded by the merits of the two MPs' arguments, one can imagine that Colonel Gaddaffi might respond by pointing out that British diplomats made no attempt to raise the compensation issue when they had the leverage of UN sanctions at their disposal.
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