Lingering Questions About Libya

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Fifteen years after PanAm Flight 103 was bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland, Libya's leader, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, has admitted responsibility for the terror attack and agreed to pay $2.7 billion to the heirs of the 270 passengers. Under pressure from the French who had settled a similar claim for substantially less, the final agreement included additional compensation to victims aboard a French airline, UTA, bombed by Libya the year after the PanAm attack.

On Friday morning, the vote is scheduled to take place to lift the United Nations sanctions against Libya. "The sanctions required Libya to admit responsibility and to prosecute those involved," said Ambassador Diego Arrias, who was Venezuela's U.N. Ambassador and President of the Security Council when the sanctions were imposed. The day after the sanctions were imposed, the Venezuelan Embassy in Tripoli was burned and looted. But times have changed and "the Libyans have met the U.N. requirements," said Arrias.

The agreement settles one chapter in the tragic war against terror by providing meaningful compensation for victims of state-sponsored terrorism. But, the question remains as to whether the Libyan leader has sworn off terror as a weapon against the West.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/11/opinion/main572826.shtml

It's proven Gadhafi did more to actually kill foreigners through terrorism. And there's no proof Hussein ever did anything with terrorism but Junior butchers the Iraqis. Why not Gadhafi?