The United States and Libya agreed to seek quick compensation for families of American victims of three terrorist attacks attributed to Libyan agents in the 1980s.
The two countries pledged Friday to work together for a comprehensive settlement that would speed up the resolutions of lawsuits that have dragged on for two decades, plus other legal and insurance cases affecting U.S. and Libyan victims.
The 1980s-era terror cases, in particular, have clouded a deal that the Libyan leader, Muammar el-Qaddafi, struck to give up weapons of mass destruction in return for improved relations with the United States. Libyan officials have become increasingly frustrated by what they regard as U.S. delays in making diplomatic and political concessions to Libya.
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One positive effect of the war in Iraq. Within days of the US invasion, Qaddafi called the US and asked them to stop by and take away all his WMDs. We complied.
He understood we were serious and were not about to negotiate. It worked. Had iraq not happened, Libya had already developed chemical and biological weapons programs - it quickly gave them up, to avoid what the world believed at the time was an inevitable conflict with the US over support for WMDs and terrorism.
Had we not - Libya today would have the weapons programs. Senator, contemplate that.
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