Monday, September 05, 2011
This explains it.
Big item in UK Telegraph. More specific than the earlier revelation of MI6 and CIA using Qaddafi for rendition.
Been wondering why the West supported the rebels in Libya, who seemed by all normal foreign-policy logic to be firm enemies of the Gaian Occupation Governments in UK and US.
Now it's obvious. Plain old blackmail. Belhadj wanted our military support; now that he's received what he needed, he reveals the truth to keep us in line.
Good for him. Any movement that replaces an internationalist dictator with local leadership is good; anything that discredits and embarrasses the internationalist dictators of the Anglosphere is especially good. ¶ 2:24 AM
A senior officer in MI6 wrote a congratulatory letter to Moussa Koussa, then head of Libyan foreign intelligence and later foreign minister, on the safe arrival from Malaysia thanks to British and American intelligence of a man known as Abu Abdallah Sadiq.
That is the nom de guerre of the leader of the then banned Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Abdelhakim Belhadj, who is now head of the Tripoli Military Council in the post-revolutionary Libyan government and a key western ally.
Mr Belhadj has claimed that once returned to Tripoli he was hung by his hands in his prison cell and beaten. He was eventually released after five years in jail in a deal under which the LIFG renounced violence. He said this weekend he was asking for an apology from Britain and America and might sue, but that the issue would not cloud the countries' relationship with the new government.
Been wondering why the West supported the rebels in Libya, who seemed by all normal foreign-policy logic to be firm enemies of the Gaian Occupation Governments in UK and US.
Now it's obvious. Plain old blackmail. Belhadj wanted our military support; now that he's received what he needed, he reveals the truth to keep us in line.
Good for him. Any movement that replaces an internationalist dictator with local leadership is good; anything that discredits and embarrasses the internationalist dictators of the Anglosphere is especially good. ¶ 2:24 AM
