On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 05:21:07 -0700 (PDT)
John B wrote:
[*] this doesn't require any belief that threats, bribes or other
direct interventions were used against the judges: a combination of
some ambition and some understanding of what the US and UK governments
of the time wanted to see would have worked just fine.

So what in effect you're saying is that the US & UK governments drew up a
list of Libyan intelligence agents and then tossed some coins as to which
one they'd use as a patsy and ask Gaddafi to hand over. Well why stop at
1? Why not ask for 3 and make it look like they got the whole team?
If Gaddifi was so desperate to get back into the US good books he could
have found some guys who'd ****ed him off and served them up on a platter
and the US could have made up what they liked about them, right?

Sorry , it doesn't wash.

B2003