Instead, Colonel Qaddafi has proposed various compromise formulas, including a trial in a neutral country, under Scottish law, if necessary.

ECONOMIST: Qaddafi entertains at home, in bed

It also required last August's flipflop by Britain and America: they had long rejected an Arab League proposal for trial in a neutral country, even in the face of Libya's acceptance and pressure from the victims' families.

ECONOMIST: Libya and the bombed airliners | The

Certainly not outside Cambodia, it seems, not even in a neutral country: the Cambodian government will not hear of a trial anywhere else.

ECONOMIST: Cambodia