alone among them in portland house on london's oxford street the 2011 un backed libyan intervention came with a un backed libyan asset for use to that meant that any libyan accounts in the u.k. were frozen and according to a report by a government committee the u.k. tax man could be scooping tax from those frozen assets the government said make good that its own $17000000.00 pounds in tax on the frozen libyan assets in the process 3 years h.-m. revenue and customs that the tax man here won't reveal any more than mt and now some british politicians want that tax revenue to be put to good use the deputy head of the northern ireland he party has urged the prime minister to use those $17000000.00 pounds in taxes collected from libyan assets in the u.k. to compensate the victims of libyan backed ira terrorism the prime minister will be aware of. the the long standing problem for justice and compensation by victims show the libyan. terrorism in northern ireland did throughout the u.k. u.s. citizens have been compensated by libyan authorities but the u.k. should not that's unlikely say the. x t

books including think tanks and power in foreign policy and foundations of the american century and in oxford we crossed to ted see he is a senior policy consultant and british american security information council retired u.s. diplomat and an expert on strategic intelligence and conflict resolution all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to london. we were talking before this recording about the novelty of this quincy institute coming into being the media has commented on oh it's obviously because of the who's going to be funding it someone very much to the left and somebody very much to the right before we talk about the principles involved in it what do you think of the idea itself i mean it is coming out against endless war wars that do not need to be started in the 1st place i mean there is a need for it and i'm all for it i raise my hand in agreement we'll talk about what's problematic about it go ahead in london. yeah i think well when i read about it in the last couple of days i it was a surprising devel

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