They're up to their necks in torture -Libyan politician offers to settle UK lawsuit

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/04/libyan-politician-uk-lawsuit-apology
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A Libyan politician who is suing the former foreign secretary Jack Straw and the British government for damages after being kidnapped and taken to one of Gaddafi's jails has offered to settle the case for just £3, providing he also receives an unreserved apology.

In a challenge to British government claims that a new generation of secret courts is needed to prevent large payouts to claimants in national security cases, Abdel Hakim Belhaj says he will settle the action – through which one other dissident received a £2.2m pay-out – for a pound each from the government, Straw, and Sir Mark Allen, former head of counter-terrorism at MI6.

Belhaj was leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, opposing the Libyan dictator, when he and his wife were detained by American intelligence officers at Bangkok airport in March 2004.

Allegedly he was tortured for several days while his wife, who was five months' pregnant, was chained to a wall at a secret prison at the airport. The couple were then flown to Tripoli, where Belhaj spent the next six years in jail.

Now leader of the Libyan Al-Watan party, Belhaj launched proceedings after a number of previously secret documents, discovered in a Tripoli office building during the 2011 revolution, showed that Allen had written to Musa Kusa, Gaddafi's intelligence chief at the time, to claim credit for providing the tip-off that led to the couple's detention.
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See they were all working for Gaddafi

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1. Oh, what a tangled web we weave!

I am watching the 4th season of "Damages" A case where art seems to be imitating life.

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2. Well anyone with two thoughts clicking in their head must know that

where there are violations of human rights there will be damages.

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3. I wonder why he's not suing the US. We're the one that arrested him and sent him to Gaddafi prison.

Belhaj was leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, opposing the Libyan dictator, when he and his wife were detained by American intelligence officers at Bangkok airport in March 2004.

Allegedly he was tortured for several days while his wife, who was five months' pregnant, was chained to a wall at a secret prison at the airport. The couple were then flown to Tripoli, where Belhaj spent the next six years in jail.

Belhaj says he was repeatedly tortured in Gaddafi's prisons, and that he was interrogated by UK intelligence officers who knew how he was being treated.

Belhaj wrote to David Cameron last week to say that he would settle for just a pound from each defendant, providing each of them unreservedly apologised to his wife and himself. In his letter, Belhaj says he will "forever be grateful to Britain" for helping the Libyan people topple Gaddafi, and that he is anxious to see good relations between the two countries.

He might not have been interrogated by US intelligence officers, as he was by those from the UK, but I'm sure we knew exactly what was happening to him and many others.

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4. True but they have acutal documentation station that Allen had written to Musa Kusa

a number of previously secret documents, discovered in a Tripoli office building during the 2011 revolution, showed that Allen had written to Musa Kusa, Gaddafi's intelligence chief at the time, to claim credit for providing the tip-off that led to the couple's detention.