Gaddafi’s €2bn compo deal for IRA victims in doubt

AN agreement by Libyan leader colonel Gaddafi to pay IRA victims billions of pounds for his role in supplying the Provos with arms and explosives has been put in jeopardy by the current unrest in the country.

The deal — worth about £2 billion (€2.34bn) — was close to being finalised last month when protests broke out against the Gaddafi regime.

Nothing has been paid out so far, according to Jason McCue, lawyer for the survivors and the families of those killed by the IRA in the North and in Britain.