So after ten years the Lockerbie suspects have been handed over, thank goodness.

How long, I wonder, will it be now before the USA hands over its personnel suspected of shooting down an unarmed Iranian passenger plane in 1987?

And what about US citizens implicated in the Pinochet atrocities?

Or the war crimes in Vietnam?

Or even the recent cable-car incident in Italy, in which 30 tourists were killed by an American plane?

Justice is great, but has to be balanced to be believed.

Otherwise it is just the power of the strong over the weak. We must not be America's poodle.

John Bibby,

Straylands Grove,

York.

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