THE COLONEL WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD:

Payback Time? Libya May Be Near Victim Compensation Deal (KIRIT RADIA, May 30, 2008, ABC News)

The United States and Libya have agreed to establish a system to resolve outstanding terror reparation payments owed to American victims of Libyan terror acts in the 1980s.

The agreement would lump all outstanding claims together in an effort to settle them all, once and for all.