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Flight 73, Was Formed To Work Toward A Memorial For Those Killed in The Incident, To Seek The

Libya was accused of sponsoring several terrorist attacks in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and the 1989 bombing of UTA Flight 772. In 2003 and 2004, Libya accepted responsibility for the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing and agreed to pay compensation to victims' families. However, Libya did not acknowledge responsibility for the 1986 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73. In 2006, survivors and families of victims from the Pan Am Flight 73 hijacking filed a $10 billion civil suit against Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, and the hijackers, alleging Libya provided material support and ordered the attack. As of 2015, $700 million in compensation funds from Libya had

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Flight 73, Was Formed To Work Toward A Memorial For Those Killed in The Incident, To Seek The

Libya was accused of sponsoring several terrorist attacks in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and the 1989 bombing of UTA Flight 772. In 2003 and 2004, Libya accepted responsibility for the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing and agreed to pay compensation to victims' families. However, Libya did not acknowledge responsibility for the 1986 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73. In 2006, survivors and families of victims from the Pan Am Flight 73 hijacking filed a $10 billion civil suit against Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, and the hijackers, alleging Libya provided material support and ordered the attack. As of 2015, $700 million in compensation funds from Libya had

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The other four prisoners were deported by Pakistani authorities to Palestine in 2008.

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involvement and legal action.

Libya has been accused of sponsoring the hijacking, as well as carrying out the bombings of Pan
Am Flight 103 in 1988 and UTA Flight 772 in 1989.

In August 2003, Libya accepted responsibility for the actions of its officials" in respect of the
bombing Pan Am Flight 103, but was silent on the question of the Pan Am Flight 73
hijacking. Libya offered $2.7 billion USD in compensation to the families of the 270 victims of
Pan Am Flight 103 and,in January 2004, agreed to pay $170 million to the families of the 170
UTA victims. The seven American UTA victims' families refused the offer and instead filed a
claim for $2.2 billion against Libya. From 2004 to 2006 the U.S. and UK opened up relations
with Libya, including removing sanctions and removing the country as a sponsor of terrorism.

In June 2004, a volunteer group of families and victims from the incident, Families from Pan Am
Flight 73, was formed to work toward a memorial for those killed in the incident, to seek the
truth behind this terrorist attack, and to hold those responsible for it accountable. On April 5,
2006, the law firm of Crowell & Moring LLP, representing the surviving passengers, estates and
family members of the hijacking victims, announced it was filing a civil suit in U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia seeking $10 billion in compensatory damages, plus
unspecified punitive damages, from Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi and the five convicted
hijackers.

The lawsuit alleged Libya provided the Abu Nidal Qrganization with material support and also
ordered the attack as part of a Libyan-sponsored terrorist campaign against American, European
and Israeli interests.

British media that was critical of normalisation of relations between Gaddafi and the West
reported in March 2004 (days after Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Tripoli) that Libya was
behind the hijacking.

As of September 2015 about $700 million of funds that Libya gave the USA to settle claims
related to Libyan sponsored terrorism has not been distributed to families of victims who were
Indian passport holders.

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