[Skybird]

A deal was made to break diplomatic deadlock over Lybia'S isolation, and money was payed. Lybia has never accepted responsibility for the terror strike, nor apologised, only said "it accepts responsibility for actions of it'S authorities", without refering to Lockerbie, and thus evading any linking of it'S declaration to Lockerbie. Also, Lybia never has given details on the strike. The Lybian prime minister explicitly denied that Lybia was accepting any guilt.

Also, the "compensations" where not unconditional, but were demanded by Lybia to be linked to actions by the UN and the US. A certain part was only to be released if the Un would end sanctions to Lybia, a seocnd share was to be relased if the US would end it'S sanctions, and the rest would only be payed if the US deletes Lybia from it's list of terror-sponsoring states.

Not that an apology would mean anything, btw. The Lybian support for murder gangs, terror groups and genociding militias goes on until today.