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malaise

(269,054 posts)
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 06:26 PM Jan 2015

War criminal & hypocrite Tony BLIAR's love letter “Dear Mu’ammar...Best wishes yours ever, Tony”

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/23/-sp-blair-gaddafi-letter-thanks-spy-cooperati
on-libya-uk-dissidents
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Tony Blair wrote to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to thank him for the “excellent cooperation” between the two countries’ counter-terrorism agencies following a period during which the UK and Libya worked together to arrange for Libyan dissidents to be kidnapped and flown to Tripoli, along with their families.

The letter, written in 2007, followed a period in which the dictator’s intelligence officers were permitted to operate in the UK, approaching and intimidating Libyan refugees in an attempt to persuade them to work as informants for both countries’ agencies.

Addressed “Dear Mu’ammar” and signed “Best wishes yours ever, Tony”, the letter was among hundreds of pages of documents recovered from Libyan government offices following the 2011 revolution and pieced together by a team of London lawyers.
Cooperation between British spies and Gaddafi’s Libya revealed in official papers
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The lawyers are bringing damages claims on behalf of a dozen Gaddafi opponents who were targeted by the two countries’ agencies during the covert cooperation. The claimants were variously detained and allegedly mistreated in Saudi Arabia, rendered from Mali to Libya, or detained and subjected to control orders in the UK.
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War criminal & hypocrite Tony BLIAR's love letter “Dear Mu’ammar...Best wishes yours ever, Tony” (Original Post) malaise Jan 2015 OP
Tony Blair and George Bush...brothers to the bone SummerSnow Jan 2015 #1
Now he is lowering flags to half mast in Britain to salute yet another dead dictator even worse. Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #2
All self-serving lies malaise Jan 2015 #3

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. Now he is lowering flags to half mast in Britain to salute yet another dead dictator even worse.
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 06:39 PM
Jan 2015

Nauseating hypocrisy.

malaise

(269,054 posts)
3. All self-serving lies
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 07:04 PM
Jan 2015

all the fugging time.
If this were a just world these men would be locked up in cells or their heads would fly in that famous Tower of London.

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