Secret deal over killer of WPC Yvonne Fletcher

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.

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

Camel hides, I take it.

Everybody knows that GWB made debts like no president before him – as you can see to the right.  War spending – to get what? To bring Osama Bin Laden to justice? A bullet would have been cheaper.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/us/14intel.html

I think Mr. Greenspan has given us the real answer to that already.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2461214.ece

But what spawned the early 80's hike in debt? Oil again, I think:

Quote: Saudis flood market with inexpensive oil in 1981, forcing unprecedented price cuts by OPEC members.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980-1989_world_oil_market_chronology

The American economy is addicted to oil, and until that changes, foreign policy will just follow meekly.

At the end of that 'rally' of debt, the Soviet Union was on its knees, and the Berlin Wall came tumbling down.

They couldn't keep up the Arms Race, obviously.