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Title: Libyan commander sues British govt.
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URL Source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/216762.html
Published: Dec 20, 2011
Author: staff
Post Date: 2011-12-20 08:14:10 by Tatarewicz
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Comments: 4

A Libyan military commander has begun legal actions against the British government for being complicit in his illegal rendition to Libya under the regime of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Abdul Hakim Belhadj, leading the revolutionary forces into Tripoli, was arrested by the US's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Malaysia in 2004 over the suspicions of having links to al-Qaeda. He was then transferred to Thailand and rendered to Libya apparently, in exchange for information that Gaddafi's agents had given to them.

He asserted that the British government betrayed him when he sought asylum through the British High Commission in Malaysia in 2004.

Human Rights Watch director Peter Bouckaert found secret documents revealing UK's complicity in the rendition plot that delivered Belhadj to Tripoli, where he was tortured and imprisoned for seven years in Abu Salim prison.

Belhadj, who is now suing the UK government, has been seeking a public apology from the US and British government and admission that his group, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), only focused on ousting Gaddafi.

He will also ask the Metropolitan police to investigate MI6 officers who were involved in his rendition to Libya.

This is while that the so-called opponent of the US and Britain, settled in the Turkish-Syrian border leading a battalion of 700 men. As he has been pursuing the war policy of the western governments, Belhadj held several meetings with the Syrian opposition leaders, aiming to wage wars against the Assad government. He sent Libyan fighters to train opposition groups in Syria and even offered to provide the opposition leaders with money and weapons.

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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0) (Edited)

It's remarkable that all these groups whose ideology has been declared seditious to the interests of western governments have let themselves be employed by those same governments to sow revolution across the region to further the interests of those same western governments.

It buggers the mind how these salafists are led about by the carrot on a stick, which is the prospect of power. They must sooner or later come to see that they will be betrayed by their benefactors.

randge  posted on  2011-12-20   8:29:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Fidel Castro should write a book -

Dictatorship 101 for Dummies

He'd make a small fortune.

Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson

Lod  posted on  2011-12-20   11:47:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

The usual filthy games are being played here. Sometimes I think that all the perfidious crap that went down during the Cold War doesn't hold a candle to what's happening vis a vis Lybia-Syria-Iran.

Muslims have been tools since day one, and they're not getting any better at playing the game.

Free Syrian Army commanded by Military Governor of Tripoli

by Thierry Meyssan
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 19 DECEMBER 2011

In the wake of the "Arab Spring" and NATO interventions, both official and secret, Qatar seeks to impose Islamist leaders wherever possible. This strategy has led it not only to fund the Muslim Brotherhood and to hand Al-Jazeera over to them, but also to support Al Qaeda mercenaries, who will henceforth oversee the Free Syrian Army. However, this new scenario raises serious concerns in Israel and among the supporters of the "clash of civilizations."

The UN Security Council members are at loggerheads over the interpretation of the events that are rocking Syria. On one hand, France, the United Kingdom and the United States claim that a revolution has swept the country, in the aftermath of the "Arab Spring", and suffering a bloody crackdown. On the other hand, Russia’s and China’s take is that Syria is having to cope with armed gangs from abroad, which it is fighting awkwardly thereby causing collateral victims among the civilian population it seeks to protect.

The on-the-spot investigation undertaken by Voltaire Network validated the latter interpretation [1]. We have collected eyewitness testimonies from those who survived an armed attack by a foreign gangs. They describe them as being Iraqis, Jordanians or Libyans, recognizable by their accent, as well as Pashtun.

In recent months, a certain number of Arab newspapers, favorable to the Al-Assad administration, discussed the infiltration into Syria of 600 to 1,500 fighters from the Islamic Fighting Group in Libya (IFGL), rebranded Al Qaeda in Libya since November 2007. In late November 2011, the Libyan press reported the attempt by the Zintan militia to detain Abdel Hakim Belhaj, companion of Osama Bin Laden [2] and historic leader of Al Qaeda in Libya, who became military governor of Tripoli by the grace of NATO [3]. The scene took place at Tripoli airport, as he was leaving for Turkey. Finally, Turkish newspapers mentioned Mr. Belhaj’s presence at the Turkish-Syrian.

Such reports have been met with disbelief on the part of all those who regard Al Qaeda and NATO are irreconcilable enemies between whom no cooperation is possible. Instead, they reinforce the thesis which I have defended since the attacks of September 11, 2001, that Al Qaeda fighters are mercenaries of the service of the CIA [4].

Who is telling the truth?

For the past week, the Spanish royalist newspaper ABC has published a daily report by photographer Daniel Iriarte. This journalist is with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the north of the country, right on the Turkish border. Iriarte champions the cause of the "revolution" and can never find words harsh enough against "Al-Assad regime."

The Free Syrian Army is made up of more than 20 00 people, according to its political chief Colonel Riyadh al-Asaad, but of only a few hundred when listening to the Syrian authorities [5].

However, in the Saturday edition dated 17 December 2011, Daniel Iriarte describes an encounter that shocked him. While his FSA friends were taking him to a new hideout, he came across some foreign insurgents: three Libyans [6].

Mahdi al-Harati, commander of the Tripoli Brigade, resigned from his functions as deputy chief of the Military Council in Tripoli to oversee the Free Syrian Army. The first one among them was al-Mahdi Hatari, a Libyan who lived in Ireland before joining Al Qaeda. At the end of the Libyan war, he was named commander of the Tripoli Brigade, then number 2 of the Tripoli Military Council headed by Abdel Hakim Belhaj. He resigned from this function, according to some because of a dispute with the Transitional National Council, according to others because he wanted to go back to Ireland to join his Irish wife [7] The truth is that he headed for Syria.

Even stranger: a member of Al Qaeda was among the pro-Palestinian activists, in June of last year, on board the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara. Numerous secret service agents, especially US, had infiltrated the "Freedom Flotilla" [8]. He was wounded and held prisoner for nine days in Israel.

Finally, during the Battle of Tripoli, al-Mahdi Harati commanded the Al Qaeda group that besieged and attacked the Rixos hotel, where I was staying with my Voltaire Network companions and the international press, and whose basement served as a shelter for the leaders of the Jamahiriya under the protection of the custody of Khamis Gaddafi [9]. According to the latter, Mahdi al-Harati was being briefed by the French officers on the ground.

The second Libyan that the Spanish photographer in the Syrian army is none other than Kikli Adem, a lieutenant of Abdel Hakim Belhaj. As for the third Libyan, nicknamed Fouad, Daniel Iriarte was not in a position to identify him.

Iriarte’s testimony dovetails with what the Arab anti-Syrian press has been claiming for weeks: the Free Syrian Army is overseen by at least 600 "volunteers" from Al Qaeda in Libya [10]. The entire operation is run by Abdel Hakim Belhaj in person with the help of the Erdogan government.

How can it be explained that a daily newspaper as anti-Assad as ABC has decided to publish the testimony of its special envoy, who sheds light on the nauseating methods employed by NATO and confirms the Syrian government’s thesis of armed destabilization? The fact is that for a week, certain advocates of the clash of civilizations have been riling against a set-up which includes Islamic extremists in a "free world" strategy.

Writing on CNBC Guest Blog [11], former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar revealed on 9 December 2011 that Abdel Hakim Belhaj was suspected of complicity in the attacks of 11 March 2004 in Madrid [12], an event that put an end to Aznar’s political career.

Sheik Ali Salabi, spiritual guide of Al Qaeda in Lybia, Abdel Hakim Belhaj’s mentor, and strong man of the "new Libya." Mr. Aznar’s outing goes hand in hand with the intervention made by his friends from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, the think tank headed by former Israeli ambassador to the UN Dore Gold [13]. They publicly voice their doubts about the validity of the current CIA strategy to place Islamists in power throughout North Africa. Their criticism is aimed against the secret society of the Muslim Brotherhood, but also against two Libyan figures: Abel Hakim Belhadj and his friend Sheikh Ali Al-Salibi. The latter is regarded as the new leader of Libya [14]. The two men are deemed to be the pawns of Qatar in the new Libya [15]. It was also Sheikh Salabi who distributed $ 2 billion of Qatari funds to help Al-Qaeda in Libya [16].

Thus the contradiction that was desperately kept hidden for the past decade returns to the surface: the mercenaries, formerly paid by Osama Bin Laden, have never stopped working in the service of US strategic interests since the first war in Afghanistan, including the period of the September 11 attacks. Yet they are portrayed ​​by Western leaders as implacable enemies.

It is likely that the objections of Mr. Aznar and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs will be overridden by NATO, as were those raised by AFRICOM commander General Carter Ham. At the beginning of the war Libya, he was incensed at having to protect jihadists who had gone to slaughter GIs in Iraq.

Detached from reality, the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee (aka "Committee pursuant to resolution 1267") and the US Department of State still have on their black list the organization of Abdel Hakim Belhaj and Sheik Salabi under its former label of Islamic Fighting Group in Libya. It would appear that is it the duty of every State to arrest these individuals if they enter their territory.

www.voltairenet.org/Free-Syrian-Army-commanded-by

randge  posted on  2011-12-20   13:04:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Sometimes I think that all the perfidious crap that went down during the Cold War doesn't hold a candle to what's happening vis a vis Lybia-Syria-Iran.

The cold war is preferable to the mindless insanity that we live with today.

Big dick wasn't joking when he spoke of a hundred year war. We're over a fifth of the way there already.

Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson

Lod  posted on  2011-12-20   13:34:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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