LIBYA - May 28 - Tripoli Offers $2.7 Bn To Lockerbie Families.(Brief Article)

Tripoli agrees in principle to pay as much as $2.7 bn to the families of the victims of the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, according to lawyers for the families. (The deal, the largest of its kind ever negotiated, would link the payment to the families to a series of US government concessions to Tripoli, including the lifting of commercial sanctions and an end to Tripoli's designation as a state sponsor of terror. The 1988 bombing took the lives of 259 airline passengers, including 181 Americans, and 11 Lockerbie residents. Lawyers involved in the negotiations said the deal could help the thawing in relations between the US and Tripoli but stressed that …