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US Court Orders Libya to Pay $6bn Print E-mail
Wednesday, 16 January 2008 18:03
ImageA US court has ordered Libya and six Libyan officials to pay more than $6bn ($3bn) in damages over the bombing of a French aircraft over Niger in 1989.
The award is payable to relatives of the seven US victims aboard UTA Flight 772, and the aircraft's American owner.

Libya has already agreed to pay $1m compensation to the relatives of each of the 170 people on board the flight - but has denied any link to the bombing.

It paid compensation over a similar attack over Lockerbie in Scotland.

Lawyers for the US victims of UTA 772 say Libya has until 25 February to decide whether to appeal against the order.

The huge award is made against Libya and six named officials.

It represents:

the value of the aircraft
compensation for the pain and suffering of the victims
compensation for the pain and suffering of the victims' families
money the victims would have earned if they had lived
interest backdated to the day of the bombing.
Under American law, awards against individuals, though not the Libyan state, are tripled because it is a terrorism case.

"This award proves that the rule of law will always prevail over "state-sponsored terrorism"," said Stuart Newberger, a lawyer for the victims' families.

The seven US victims included Bonnie Pugh, whose husband Robert was then the US ambassador to Chad.


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