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A cache of papers found at the intelligence headquarters dating from the time it was run by Moussa Koussa, who later became foreign minister and defected in March, showed Libya was handed Islamist opposition members as part of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" programme.

MI6 also provided extensive information to the Libyan authorities of opponents living in Britain.

The British intelligence services seem to have been more circumspect than their American colleagues, however. Often the files, which were found by Human Rights Watch and shown to The Sunday Telegraph, suggest they restricted themselves to confirming information already known to the Libyans.

It also shows one reason for the co-operation - MI6's belief that Libyan Islamists were playing a central role in funding and supporting al-Qaeda, often via contacts in Iran.

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The group said it uncovered hundreds of letters between the CIA, MI6 and Koussa, who is now in exile in London. Letters from the CIA began, "Dear Moussa," and were signed informally with first names only by CIA officials, Human Rights Watch said.

The current military commander for Tripoli of Libya's provisional government, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, was among those captured and sent to Libya by the CIA, Human Rights Watch said.
"Among the files we discovered at Moussa Koussa's office is a fax from the CIA dated 2004 in which the CIA informs the Libyan government that they are in a position to capture and render Belhadj," Human Rights Watch's Peter Bouckaert, who was part of the group that found the stash, told Reuters.

"That operation actually took place. He was captured by the CIA in Asia and put on a secret flight back to Libya where he was interrogated and tortured by the Libyan security services."

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

Right.  Kuhdaffy decided he wanted to be a "partner" in the war on terror.  What did you think that meant?  Tolerance nights at the mosque?

Funny how this "comes to light" immediately in the wake of the revelation that a rebel military commander had been caught and sent to a Libyan prison by the CIA, after he'd been snuggling with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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British intelligence paid large sums of money to an al-Qaeda cell in Libya in a doomed attempt to assassinate Colonel Gadaffi in 1996 and thwarted early attempts to bring Osama bin Laden to justice.The latest claims of MI6 involvement with Libya's fearsome Islamic Fighting Group, which is connected to one of bin Laden's trusted lieutenants, will be embarrassing to the Government, which described similar claims by renegade MI5 officer David Shayler as 'pure fantasy.'

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

Right.  Kuhdaffy decided he wanted to be a "partner" in the war on terror.  What did you think that meant?  Tolerance nights at the mosque?

Funny how this "comes to light" immediately in the wake of the revelation that a rebel military commander had been caught and sent to a Libyan prison by the CIA, after he'd been snuggling with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle

Last time I checked the paperwork, there was this thing called Due Process which the US Government had to legally provide.

Picking someone up and sending them to be tortured therefore isn't something anyone in the US Government should be doing.

I think a thorough investigation into the identities and specific actions of these individuals alleged to have dishonored America with their cowardly choice to deprive people of due process, and their prosecution to the fullest extent of the law.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


So Obamas rebels in Libya are Taliban allies? Is that what this means?

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
So Obamas rebels in Libya are Taliban allies? Is that what this means?

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

Right.  Kuhdaffy decided he wanted to be a "partner" in the war on terror.  What did you think that meant?  Tolerance nights at the mosque?

Funny how this "comes to light" immediately in the wake of the revelation that a rebel military commander had been caught and sent to a Libyan prison by the CIA, after he'd been snuggling with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Due process to American citizens, though Obama doesnt respect that.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

Not "ha-ha" funny, Polite, but "let's cover our asses with anything we can reach out and grab" funny.  I don't know if the same response comes in your country with references to MI-6, but over here, there is a knee-jerk aversion among the left to ever viewing CIA as anything but a thoroughly evil entity.  Bringing this up, no matter how long the well informed have known the agency was cooperating with Libya, is offered as "proof" the Kuhdaffy regime was intolerable, and to reframe the commander with Taliban ties as just another victim of the Bush years.

It's convoluted and counter-intuitive I know,but the good Mr. Orwell once captured it nicely as "doublethink."

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


So Obamas rebels in Libya are Taliban allies? Is that what this means?

That's a good question, Sanity.  The answer seems to be, "we hope not."  Nobody has ever tried to deny that radical religious elements make up a chunk of the rebellion, but it gets sketchy at how big a chunk.