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 Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 12:53 am Post subject: Death in Libya, betrayal in the west |
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This is shocking if it's true. The US (and her allies?) appears to have been colluding with Gaddafi to round up dissidents.
Death in Libya, betrayal in the west
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We condemned the unexplained death of the terror suspect Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi but the west has colluded in the mistreatment of Libyan dissidents
News of the death, in a Libyan jail, of Ibn al-Shaikh al-Libi, a US terror suspect who was the subject of an extraordinary rendition, then tortured in Egypt and Jordan as well as CIA prisons in Afghanistan and Poland has, understandably, raised questions about whether he committed suicide � as the Libyan authorities claimed � or whether he was murdered. Just two weeks ago, representatives of Human Rights Watch saw him in Tripoli's Abu Salim prison, and although he refused to speak to them, they reported that he "looked well."
Al-Libi's death should also raise uncomfortable questions for former US vice-president Dick Cheney, who is still turning up with alarming regularity on US television, peddling his claims that the use of torture saved America from further terrorist attacks. The focus on al-Libi should be a stark reminder that, when he was rendered to Egypt in early 2002, the CIA's proxy torturers extracted a false confession from him � that al-Qaida operatives had received training from Saddam Hussein in the use of chemical and biological weapons � which was used not to protect the US from attack, but to justify the invasion of Iraq. The claim featured prominently in secretary of state Colin Powell's presentation to the UN, just a month before the invasion began.
However, beyond the story of al-Libi's mysterious death and of Dick Cheney's role in torturing him to launch an illegal war � as documented by Moazzam Begg earlier this week � another disturbing aspect of America's cosy relationship with Colonel Gaddafi, in the war on terror emerged in Human Rights Watch's press release about al-Libi's death. The organisation noted that its researchers had interviewed four other prisoners also rendered to Libya by the CIA, who reported that they had been tortured � by or on behalf of US forces � in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Thailand.
What struck me as particularly significant was that, in 2007, Noman Benotman, an exiled opponent of the Gaddafi regime, had explained to the Washington Post that two of these men � Abdallah al-Sadeq and Abu Munder al-Saadi � had been seized by the CIA in Thailand and Hong Kong, but had only been "held briefly" before being rendered to Tripoli, because the CIA "realised very quickly that these guys had nothing to do with al-Qaida". In the bluntest terms possible, this means that these men were flown halfway around the world, at the CIA's expense, not because they were a threat to the US, but because they were considered a threat to Gaddafi, even though, before Libya's president adroitly joined the "war on terror", he was regarded as a pariah and an international terrorist and those who opposed him were seen as freedom fighters.
Moreover, these pawns in a political game are found not only in the CIA's rendition programme. There are also six prisoners in Guant�namo, picked up in Afghanistan and Pakistan, who were automatically labelled as international terrorists and associates of al-Qaeda because of their opposition to the Gaddafi regime.
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Tjames426
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1. Gee, I guess all the yak yak about closing the comfy, nice, and safe place in Cuba has led to outsourcing and torture of terrorists. American Liberals want to close the safest and greatest place for your US hating terrorist? Cool, we will just ship them to someplace that do not have such gentle sensibilities. LOL That ought to stop the recruitment of terrorists who think they will live in luxury in Gitmo!
2. I wash your hands, you wash mine. It is what countries do around the world. If we are doing this for Gaddafi, I wonder what goodies he is giving the USA in return? Must be some sweet stuff indeed. Sweet stuff that keep the US Mainland from being targeted again by a major terrorist attack.
3. Remind me again why I should feel sorry for International Terrorists who target civilians? |
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