Former PM ‘has questions to acknowledge’, say lawyers for victims of IRA attacks in which Semtex supplied by Libyan regime was usedThe former prime minister Tony Blair has been asked to give evidence to a parliamentary committee looking into the failure to include UK victims of IRA violence in a compensation deal with the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Lawyers for victims of attacks in which semtex explosives supplied by Gaddafi were used said that Blair had “questions to acknowledge” about why they were locked out of a 2008 deal in which Libya paid about £1bn in compensation to US victims of terrorism.
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Source: theguardian.com