http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6832361.ece

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The Libyan killer of a British policewoman will never be brought to justice 
in Britain after a secret deal approved by Jack Straw.
The Foreign Office bowed to Libyan pressure and agreed that Britain would 
abandon any attempt to try the murderer of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, shot outside 
the Libyan embassy in London 25 years ago.
Anthony Layden, Britain's former ambassador to Libya, said this weekend he 
had signed the agreement with the Libyan government three years ago, when 
Straw was foreign secretary. At the time Britain was negotiating trade deals 
worth hundreds of millions of pounds with Libya.
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Now you Britons, be careful not to criticise Muammar Gaddafi. He can have 
you killed right in the UK, and expect London to do nothing more about it 
than they did about Fletcher. What Gaddafi wants from Britain, Gaddafi gets.

"Larry Hammick"  wrote ...

> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6832361.ece
>
> Begins:
> The Libyan killer of a British policewoman will never be brought to 
> justice in Britain after a secret deal approved by Jack Straw.
> The Foreign Office bowed to Libyan pressure and agreed that Britain would 
> abandon any attempt to try the murderer of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, shot 
> outside the Libyan embassy in London 25 years ago.
> Anthony Layden, Britain's former ambassador to Libya, said this weekend he 
> had signed the agreement with the Libyan government three years ago, when 
> Straw was foreign secretary. At the time Britain was negotiating trade 
> deals worth hundreds of millions of pounds with Libya.
> (continues)
> --------
> Now you Britons, be careful not to criticise Muammar Gaddafi. He can have 
> you killed right in the UK, and expect London to do nothing more about it 
> than they did about Fletcher. What Gaddafi wants from Britain, Gaddafi 
> gets.

Interesting spin and disenginuity. If the deal is true, it's more, 
'government puts some interests above others' and that's overwhelmingly true 
of governments around the world.

What Gaddafi wants from Britain he likely only gets when it's seen by 
government to be in the best interests of Britain. If the government were 
the puppets of Gaddafi it wouldn't have tied abandoning pursuit of the 
Fletcher case to a trade deal would it ?

Now, 'government puts trade deal ahead of murder victim justice', I'd go 
along with - that's 'business as usual' all round the world.

You don't make a very good conspiracy theorist Larry. That there's a 
logical - if arguably distasteful and/or wrong - reason for what the British 
government has done makes your theorising laughable. It could be spun the 
other way; Britain forces Libya to agree to huge trade deal in exchange for 
dropping Fletcher case; Gaddafi is 'Britain's Bitch'.

For some reason you want to hammer "London". You're not doing a very good or 
plausible job of it. You'd have done better concentrating on the 'is this 
right to do?' aspect of the affair as the Times and others have, rather than 
trying to hang your own, weak, conspiracy theories on the back of that.

In message <6GYqm.43755$Db2.3538@edtnps83>, Larry Hammick
 writes
>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6832361.ece
>
>Begins:
>The Libyan killer of a British policewoman will never be brought to justice
>in Britain after a secret deal approved by Jack Straw.

What about the illegal killers of British service personnel Should we
still demand that they stand trial? Will the US hand them over?

The US has unlawfully killed far more British people than Libya.
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In message <Kq3rm.78672$OO7.13081@text.news.virginmedia.com>, The Happy
Hippy  writes

>
>For some reason you want to hammer "London".

I can't understand it... We are the ONLY people globally who are helping
the US in any real or meaning full way  in Afghanistan and Iraq.

If the UK pulls out of Afghanistan the US is screwed.

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Whitehall denies it:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/13/uk.libya.fletcher/index.html
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi will probably speak up about it. Everybody listen, 
now.