MPs support compensation bid from Libya
The campaign for IRA victims to receive compensation from the Libyan government gathered pace this week with a motion supporting the claims backed by Parliament.
DUP MPs Jeffrey Donaldson and Nigel Dodds tabled the motion on Monday which called for pressure to be put on Colonel Gaddafi.
They want Libya to pay for supplying Semtex and arms to the IRA during recent atrocities, including the Canary Wharf bombing of 1996.
The motion received support from all parties in Parliament apart from Sinn Fein, whose president Gerry Adams said he supported the right to seek compensation but felt the motion was partisan.
Donaldson said: "This debate should not be viewed as a unionist-versus-nationalist issue as Libyan sponsored terrorism made no distinction between Protestant and Catholic or unionist and nationalist."
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