Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi agreed last week to pay up to $5 million to relatives of each of the 270 victims of Pan Am Flight 103, downed over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. He also sent a statement to the U.N. Security Council in which his country renounced terrorism and accepted responsibility for the actions of a Libyan spy found guilty of blowing up the aircraft. A U.S.-backed agreement calls on the U.N. to permanently lift sanctions on Libya, which were suspended in 1999 after Gaddafi handed over two suspects.
But it's not a done deal yet, thanks to a familiar U.S....
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