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July 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
British police visited Libya briefly last month for preliminary discussions
about pursuing their investigation. But Mr Shamis — and others who came
under fire that day — said progress since the revolution, almost a year ago,
had been slow and accused Britain of dragging its feet.
“It is time to do something about this,” he said. “It is mind-boggling that
the British authorities have done nothing. If they had taken it seriously,
they could have solved it by now.” Britain strongly rejected the allegation
and said that resolving the Fletcher case was a priority for the Government
and was raised every time British and Libyan ministers met.
“We are pleased that a Metropolitan Police team was able to visit Libya in
mid-June for initial discussions with the Libyan authorities,” said a
spokesman for the British embassy in Tripoli. “The embassy is in close
contact with the Libyan authorities to follow up on this visit.”
A Foreign Office source said: “Nobody should decry the energy and
assiduousness with which the British government and the Metropolitan Police
are seeking a solution to the murder of one of their police officers.”
Libyan government sources said further significant developments could be
announced as early as this week.
Mr Shamis said his contacts within the Gaddafi regime had given him the name
of the alleged killer before last year’s revolution and he had since been
able to confirm it in government. “Everybody I’ve met since the revolution
who had something to do with this has confirmed the name of Mr Khalifa to
me,” he said.
“People involved with the regime have confirmed the name to me. People in
[regime] security who are now part of the revolution have confirmed the name
to me.
“I keep hearing this name again and again.”
Mr Shamis said he had given Mr Khalifa’s name to British police but had “heard
nothing” from them.
Abdulmajid Biuk, a member of a commission responsible for removing Gaddafi-era
figures from state institutions, separately named Mr Khalifa to The
Sunday Telegraph.
At the time of the shooting, Mr Khalifa was the main leader of pro-Gaddafi
Libyan students in Britain. After his return he became prominent in
Gaddafi’s revolutionary committees and was given a lucrative post as
director of the country’s High Institute for Electronics.
Mohammed al-Alaghi, who served as justice minister for the first four months
after the overthrow of Gaddafi, said Mr Khalifa was in the “operation room”
of the regime.”
In the family’s home town of Sabratha, west of Tripoli, Mr Khalifa’s brother,
Abdulrazzak, confirmed that he was alive and out of the country, but refused
to answer further questions. The Sunday Telegraph sought Mr Khalifa’s
reaction to the allegations through his brother but he did not respond.
WPc Fletcher is the only one of the 37 police officers murdered in Britain
over the past 30 years whose case is unsolved.
John Murray, who was on duty alongside her that day, criticised the British
investigation. “The agreement David Cameron made was that there would be a
full investigation. But as far as I’m concerned there’s nothing happening at
all.”
Making an issue of the case could have hampered the diplomatic drive for
closer relations with Libya begun by Tony Blair as prime minister, Mr Murray
believes.
Mr Alaghi said: “The British government knows who killed Yvonne Fletcher. But
they discussed it with the old regime and came to a compromise which was
shameful.”
In April, Ali Hamiada Ashour, the current justice minister, criticised
Britain’s “delay” in sending officers, adding that they were “ready to give
any help necessary” and “this could start now as far as we are concerned”.
Sources in Libya suggested there would soon be “significant movement” in the
investigation but Adil Almansouri, a dissident at the embassy demonstration
who was shot and injured, said he had not been contacted by British or
Libyan authorities.
“Are they actually trying to find out who did it?” he said.
Mr Khalifa’s name appears in a report prepared for the Crown Prosecution
Service in 2007, leaked to The Daily Telegraph, detailing those of material
relevance to the case.
“Salah Khalifa” is described as a “less significant party”.
It has previously been reported that Abdulmagid Salah Ameri, a junior Libyan
diplomat, now thought to be dead, fired the fatal shots.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard refused to comment on whether Mr Khalifa’s name
had been passed to them. “We never comment on such matters. The case remains
open,” the spokesman said.
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