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Britain: No Third-Country Host for KGB Spy Trial NewsMax.com Wires LONDON -- Britain said Wednesday it would not accept a trial in a third country of a former KGB agent accused of using radioactive poison to kill a Kremlin critic. Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office earlier appeared to have opened the way to a possible compromise deal in another country or territory, but later confirmed it would only consider a trial in Britain. "We want the trial to be in a British court, on British soil," said Prime Minister Gordon Brown's spokesman, Michael Ellam. The spokesman had earlier said only that the trial should be in a British court, raising the prospect of a hearing in a third country, similar to the case of a Libyan suspect convicted over the 1988 airliner bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. That trial was held by a Scottish court that was specially convened in the Netherlands, after Libya accepted the proposal of a trial in a neutral country. Brown's Downing Street office said any confusion was unintentional and stressed it was seeking only a trial in Britain. Britain this week ordered four Russian diplomats to leave the country because of Russia's refusal to extradite former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi, named by British prosecutors as the chief suspect in the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, another former agent and a harsh Kremlin critic who was poisoned with a radioactive isotope in London in November. Story Continues Below
Russia has threatened unspecified measures in response, leading to concerns that both sides were taking extreme positions that could make resolution of the dispute difficult.
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