| Downing Street intervened to "clarify" foolish comments by Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, who said Britain would not hand over Osama bin Laden to America if he were to face execution there. "Mr Hoon was talking hypothetically about him arriving on UK shores," said the spokesman. "But in the unlikely event that bin Laden allows himself to be captured by British forces alone, we have always made it clear that, since America is the wronged country, Britain would hand him over to the US." |