JURIST - Paper Chase: BREAKING NEWS ~ Libya to pay compensation to victims of 1986 disco bombing

AP is reporting that Libya has agreed to pay $35 million in compensation to victims of a 1986 disco bombing in Berlin.

UPDATE: Compensation will be paid to the family of a Turkish woman killed in the 1986 Berlin bombing and to Germans who were wounded. Families of two US servicemen killed are not included in the deal. The deal, negotiated between Libyan officials and lawyers for the German victims, follows a 2001 Berlin court ruling that the bombing was organized by the Libyan secret service and aided by the Libyan Embassy in East Berlin. In June, a German federal court upheld the sentences of four people convicted of carrying out the bombing. JURIST's Paper Chase has background on that decision.