Gadhafi Demands Arrest Of Spies Who Killed Diana

Mon., Sept. 29, 1997

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has often said that if Washington wants two Libyans to stand trial for the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet, it should turn over the U.S. pilots who carried out a 1986 air raid on Libya.

On Sunday, Gadhafi added a new condition: Britain must hand over British intelligence agents he claims killed Princess Diana and her companion, Dodi Fayed, by arranging their Aug. 31 car crash in Paris.

“Britain has no right to talk about Lockerbie till after these assassins (British agents) are tried before a Libyan court,” Gadhafi told reporters.

Gadhafi’s comments were reported by the Libyan news agency, JANA, which faxed its report to The Associated Press in Cairo.

Immediately after the princess and Fayed died, Gadhafi expounded the theory that British spies killed them to prevent a possible marriage that could have embarrassed the British royal family by producing children with Muslim names. Gadhafi insists that Fayed, an Egyptian, is of Libyan origin.

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