Libya to compensate West Berlin bombing victims

LIBYA has agreed to compensate more than 160 victims of the 1986 bombing of a West Berlin nightclub, making another major step toward ending its international isolation.

The Libyan ambassador to Germany, Said Abdulaati, said yesterday the compensation would total $35 million, a figure later confirmed by the German government.

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s spokesman Bela Anda said the deal would enable Germany and Europe to improve economic and political relations with the oil-rich North African nation and that Schroeder would travel to Tripoli shortly.