This wasn’t enough. Oh, no. And this wasn’t enough. The kowtowing wasn’t complete. And who knows? There may be more to come, more jizya to pay, more bowing and scraping in the offing.
“Secret deal over killer of WPC Yvonne Fletcher,” by Hala Jaber Tripoli and David Leppard for The Sunday Times, September 13 (thanks to Choi):
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.
The deal followed a visit by Tony Blair, then prime minister, to meet Colonel Gadaffi in March 2004 after Libya announced that it was ending its nuclear weapons programme….