Tripoli, Libya - September 7 2009 .... Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi performed an about-face in the wake of the September 11 attacks on the United States, dismantling his country's secret nuclear programme and accepting his government's responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing, the 1988 attack which killed 270 people, mostly Americans. Brown and other government officials stressed the need to keep Libya on that route when explaining why they did not press the Libyans for compensation for the IRA's attacks. But documents released on Sunday - including a letter sent from Middle East minister Bill Rammel to Jonathan Ganesh, a survivor of one of the IRA bombings - suggested that the government was also keeping Libya's vast oil wealth in mind. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said his government "does not consider it appropriate to enter into a bilateral discussion with Libya on this matter," according to a letter to victims' lawyer Jason McCue released by Downing Street. The news outraged British survivors of IRA bombings - particularly since US victims of IRA attacks have secured a separate compensation deal with Tripoli. Brown told reporters in Berlin on Sunday he would offer diplomatic support to private efforts to secure compensation, but he still shied away from pursuing the issue with Libya directly. "The disgusting act and action is the act and behaviour of the politicians, both in the UK and America. They are trying to use this human tragedy, both Mr Megrahi and for the...

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