The Libyan Commander required ‘Rendition Apology’ from M16 and CIA
Published by Julia Volkovah under Abdel Hakim Belhaj, bangkok protest, CIA and MI6, counter terrorism on 5:11 AMThe commander of defiant-government forces in Tripoli says he would likes to an apology from UK and US for his shifting into a prison in Libya in 2004.
Abdel Hakim Belhaj, then a terror suppose, says he was tortured after being held in Bangkok. He says he was transferred to Libya by a CIA and MI6 operation, purportedly verified by documents sent to Gaddafi's rule.
The Foreign Office said the government had a "venerable policy" not to remark on intelligence affairs. Mr. Belhaj told, "What occurred to me and my family is unlawful. It ought to have an apology. And for what happened to me when I was detained and persecuted. "In spite of these unlawful acts, beginning with the sequence provided to Libyan security, the questioning in Bangkok."
According to the Guardian, these documents were unveiled in a dumped office building in Tripoli by personals from Human Rights Watch. Mr. Belhaj said that MI6 and the CIA did not spectator his torture at the hands of the ex Libyan rule, but did question him later on.
Sir Mark Allen, past MI6's director of counter-terrorism, has been stated to be the writer of a letter to Moussa Koussa, thanking him for a "tasty" gift of dates and oranges, which was found among the recovered papers. Mr. Koussa worked for years as Col Gaddafi's spy chief before appointing foreign minister. He blemished in the initial part of the uprising, flying to the Britain and then on to Qatar.
Rights groups have long blamed him of involvement in killings, and had called on the UK to capture him at the time. The charges were destructive "because we're discussing about acts that were unlawful". Kim Howells, a ex Foreign Office minister who became chairman of the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee, said his committee found no proof of version by the UK.
But, he further said following the September 11 attacks, British intelligence would have been functioning closely with their Libyan foils. "There were massive frightens that Islamists - and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group was an Islamist organization - were going to attempt and do the same mania in London or Glasgow or Cardiff or anything," he said.
"And I consider there was a try by the security services and intelligence services to attempt and acquire possess of any information that might give a hint as to whether there were bombers at outsized."
Philippe Sands, a professor of international law, says he would not be astonished to discover that British security services and politicians were obliging with Libyan authorities in the fight against terrorism, but also said some queries required to be inquired. "It's very disappointing but steady with a model of information and papers that appeared in English court actions and somewhere else showing very close assistance, shall we say.
"But this letter [naming to Abdul Hakim Belhaj] shows to be conflicting with guarantees given by most senior folk at MI5 and MI6 about who knew what when." Other papers purportedly showing the CIA kidnapped many alleged insurgents from 2002 to 2004 and handed them to Tripoli were amid a huge numbers of pieces of mail from US and UK authorities unveiled by journalists and rebels in an office evidently used by Moussa Koussa.
The CIA would not comment on the details of the charges.
The documents are also reported to advise that MI6 also gave the Gaddafi rule explanations of rebels. These precise documents, found by Human Rights Watch staff, have not been observed by the BBC or separately confirmed. They purportedly unveil aspects about the UK's relationship with the Gaddafi government.
One letter dated 18 March 2004 and with the address "London SE1", praises Libya on the entrance of Mr. Belhaj.
In the mean time, China's government has accepted that Chinese arms makers held negotiations as newly as July with the envoys of Colonel Gaddafi's regime those were looking for arms and ammunition as his forces fought activists.
The meetings held in China while a UN sanctions on such deals was in place. But China's Foreign Ministry has persisted that no definite weapons were given to Libya.