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Accordo con Libia per risarcimento delle vittime causate da IRA? “Speculazione”

Libya deal for IRA victims ‘speculation’

A DUP MP has rejected reports a payout deal has been agreed which would see Libya paying IRA victims billions of pounds for its role in supplying the group with arms.

La Mon House HotelThe Sunday Times claims Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is to offer around £2 billion in payouts.

The move comes after a delegation of MPs visited the North African country last November.

The cross-party group of three MPs and three members of the Lords met a number of officials from Colonel Gaddafi’s regime to discuss the ongoing bid to secure financial redress for Libya’s role in arming the republican paramilitaries during the Troubles.

DUP’s Jeffrey Donaldson was among them but he has told UTV no deal has been done yet.

“Discussions are continuing with the Libyan government, but the figures mentioned in the public domain are purely speculative”, Donaldson said.

“There hasn’t been an agreement reached at this stage and we are hoping to meet lawyers next week to see were we are”, he added.

Semtex explosives supplied by Libya were one of the IRA’s most lethal weapons in its decades-long terror campaign.

Links between the IRA and Colonel Gaddafi are thought to stretch back as far as 1972, and Libya is understood to have supplied the Republican group with Czech-made Semtex in the 1980s, as well as thousands of rifles, small arms and flame throwers.

Meanwhile, the Foreign Office would not be drawn on claims that a trade deal between the UK and Libya was expected to be part of the settlement..

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René Querin

Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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