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Four people have been found guilty in Berlin of the 1986 bombing of a disco - an attack which the United States and German prosecutors have blamed on Libya. The West Berlin disco, La Belle, was popular with US soldiers when it was attacked. The bomb killed three people - including two US servicemen - and injured about 250. The attack prompted retaliatory air strikes by the US against two Libyan cities. The Berlin court upheld claims that Libyan secret service agents and embassy staff had planned the disco attack - but stopped short of blaming Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi ...

BERLIN - Libya agreed Tuesday to pay $35 million in compensation for victims of a 1986 bombing in Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen and a Turkish woman and injured 229 others, the Libyan ambassador to Germany said. The deal applies to Germans who were wounded in the April 5, 1986 attack on the LaBelle disco and the family of the slain Turkish woman, but not the families of two Americans, Ambassador Said Abdulaati told The Associated Press. It is the latest step in an effort by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to end his country's pariah status, following agreements to...