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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWar 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-cooperation-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 dictators 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 Muammar 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 Gaddafis 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
Now he is lowering flags to half mast in Britain to salute yet another dead dictator even worse.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#2
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)1. Tony Blair and George Bush...brothers to the bone
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. Now he is lowering flags to half mast in Britain to salute yet another dead dictator even worse.
Nauseating hypocrisy.
malaise
(269,054 posts)3. All self-serving lies
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.