The Government of National Accord is up in arms about a House of Commons proposal to pass a law enabling the British Government to use frozen Libyan assets in Britain to compensate IRA victims.
This was one of three legacy issues, which London was keen to pursue when I arrived in Libya in 2011. The other two were the criminal investigations into the 1984 murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher and the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. The issue of IRA compensation was the brainchild of an ambitious lawyer seeking to take a multi-million pound slice of the Libyan oil and gas money. His letter to Prime Minister, David Cameron in 2011, was an outlandish piece of opportunism.
See Chapter 6 of Belfast to Benghazi for other mistakes London made in the aftermath of the Libyan revolution.
Rupert Wieloch 