but gaddafi had decided he was going to trust me. suppose he was brave, you would say, because a lot of people tried to kill him at one time or another. in the briefcase was a file full of pictures of flora at various ages. he then asked me why i'd come, and i said to him, "well, look, "two of your men have been accused of the lockerbie disaster, and i think the only way to find out if that's true or not is to have them tried in a proper court of law. is there anything you could do to ease the situation?" after about 40 minutes i felt it was time to go. and i took one more thing out of my briefcase, a little badge, and it said on it, "lockerbie. the truth must be known." and i pinned that badge on his lapel. and again, you could hear a click, click, click. (chuckles) and when i left his presence that time, he was wearing that badge on the lapel. i thought it's a good for him to acknowledge the truth must be known. reporter: colonel gaddafi insists that his government has been unfairly accused. reporter 2: us and british authorities c

gaddafi's son, saif gaddafi, told me, "yeah, we've decided to pay compensation "because that's the onlyget the ball rolling "and get our oil industry back on stream "and get the money coming in again." john: libya desperately wanted and needed to get its relationship with the west back on track. in order to do that, they had to admit responsibility for the bombing, whether or not they did it, and pay compensation, whether or not they did it. whichever camp you fall into, whether you believe the libyan's did it, or not, you've always been thwarted by politics. nic: britain's needs of libya and access to oil revenues were greater than the united states. they didn't need to make the compromises the british government were, it appears, prepared to do. prime minister tony blair met with muammar gaddafi, and during this meeting there were two documents signed. one was a very large british petroleum deal. and the second was a prisoner transfer agreement. in libya, there were no uk prisoners, and there was only one libyan prisoner in all of the uk. al-megrahi. john: megrahi was diagnosed with t