'Partners in crime': UK spies worked with Gaddafi against Libyan exiles, court hears
Lawyers say British officials indicated willingness to 'engage in covert operations outside the rule of law' and 'turn a blind eye to torture'
Tony Blair (L) and Muammar Gaddafi take a walk on the outskirts of Tripoli in March 2004 (AFP)
Richard Norton-Taylor
Wednesday 12 December 2018
LONDON - A group of Libyan men were subjected to systematic abuse, curfews, and wrongful imprisonment, and threatened with deportation, as a result of years of secret collusion between Britain’s security and intelligence agencies – MI5 and MI6 – and the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the high court in London heard on Wednesday.
In a blistering attack, Tom de la Mare, counsel for the Libyans, described British and Libyan intelligence agencies as being “partners in crime in unlawful and extremely shady behaviour†and a persistent refusal to come clean on their close cooperation despite mounting evidence in the media and earlier court hearings.
Allegations against 18 men – five of whom were named in high court papers on Monday – were based on claims provided to MI5 and MI6 by Libya’s intelligence agencies at a time the British government led by then-prime minister Tony Blair was developing a close and potentially lucrative relationship with Gaddafi.
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If it weren't for the photo, I might have passed on this story; but we know, USA dignitaries have met dictators, maybe even Gaddafi.
For all we know, this might have been at the UN or something.
I don't like Gaddaffi, he probably was up to no good. It's still troubling how that action and its consequences took place.
