Payment is part of multitiered plan to normalize relations between the two countries . Tensions go back to attacks on Pan Am 103 , German disco , U.S. airstrikes . `` American victims and their families have waited decades for Libya to pay for its deadly acts of violence and today they have received long-overdue justice , '' he said in a statement . Libya now exempt from legislation allowing victim compensation from frozen assets . Comment:
Payment is part of multitiered plan to normalize relations between the two countries . Tensions go back to attacks on Pan Am 103 , German disco , U.S. airstrikes . Libya now exempt from legislation allowing victim compensation from frozen assets . Comment: