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Britain
UK was in secret talks for £10 billion deal with Libya
2011-02-27
The British Government was brokering a secret deal worth up to £10 billion with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime before Libya descended into chaos, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.

For the past 18 months a dedicated Foreign Office unit has been supporting lawyers fighting to win compensation for UK victims of IRA bombs built with Libyan-supplied explosives.
Another of Labour's bright ideas.
The team was in the advanced stages of discussing a "Victims' Initiative" package with key members of Gaddafi's regime.

The possible agreement would have included payouts for the 150 families of those killed and injured bringing the claim, as well as a huge "cultural and social" investment focusing on reconciliation projects, much of it in Northern Ireland.

Sources said the agreement would have seen Libya committing between £2 billion and £10 billion to the UK, as part of an effort to detoxify "Brand Libya".
Going to need to rethink that part ....
Posted by:lotp

#2  At the same time the Obama administration refuses to all any sort of domestic drilling - even illegally banning drilling in the gulf.

Can anybody think of a better way to give their support?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-02-27 08:48  

#1  The key part of this story is that the ordnance and killers Qadaffy is dumping on Libyans were mostly imported from abroad and paid for with the oil Libya sold the UK and the rest of Europe.
Oil money for Jihad, oil money for terror, oil money for insane dictators, the theme gets very little coverage.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2011-02-27 05:51  

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