Police defended
NZPA-Reuter London Britain has defended the integrity of its police, denied that they planted arms in the Libyan Embassy, and said that a continuing search had turned up one more gun. The Foreign Office, which broke off diplomatic relations with Libya over an 11day siege at the embassy, said that a Saudi diplomat acting as observer had witnessed the search.
The Foreign Office rejected as “totally unfounded” an assertion from the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi that the British police had planted weapons and a spent cartridge in the embassy so that they could blame the Libyans for killing a policewoman outside.
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Press, 4 May 1984, Page 6
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