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Libya Supports Rebel Commander Was Tortured, Issued By The CIA
The rebel commander in Tripoli Libya superior military, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, dropped something of a bomb in an interview with the New York Times yesterday: In 2004, he said, two agents of the CIA tortured in Thailand, and then "translated "He Libya. From there, he says, was detained in solitary confinement for the next six years.
"Yes, [Belhaj] said he was detained by Malaysian authorities in 2004 upon arrival at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, where he was subjected to extraordinary rendition on behalf of the United States and sent to Thailand, "New York Times" Norland Rod wrote. "In Bangkok, Mr. Belhaj said he was tortured in a few days by two people he said were CIA agents, and, worse, bring him back to Libya, where he was thrown in a cell of solitary confinement for six years. "
Now head of the committee Belhaj rebels Libyan military to restore order in the capital Tripoli.
A CIA spokesman said on Thursday sent to the agency refused to comment on the allegations Belhaj.
But the allegations suggest the challenge that Western diplomats in Libya: How much does the West know the influential faction of the rebels with the former Libyan Islamist jihad tapes? And how these relationships affect efforts to protect American interests in Libya in a post-Qadhafi?
Omar Ashour The scientist sums up the dilemma in an article published this week reported its Belhaj interview last year: "Is your leadership role means that the jihadists are configured to exploit the overthrow of the Gaddafi?"
Belhaj, known as "Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq" in jihadist circles, the former head of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), "a jihadist organization historical links with al-Qaida and the Taliban and the Egyptian al-Jihad organization, "Ashour, an academic at the University of Exeter and the Brookings Doha Center, said in an article in Foreign Policy this week.
Paramilitary Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which was founded in 1990, "led to three years of low-level insurgency in eastern Libya ... and I tried three times to assassinate Gaddafi in 1995 and 1996," said Ashour. When Qaddafi usually crushed Group in 1998, that "most of its leaders and members escaped and joined forces with the Taliban in Afghanistan," in which they have sworn allegiance to Mullah Omar, Taliban leader.
After the September 11 terrorist attacks and subsequent U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, "Belhaj, and most of the LIFG leaders left the country, only to be arrested by the CIA in 2004 and then delivered to the Gaddafi regime, after interviews in Thailand and Hong Kong, "says Ashour. Belhaj was then imprisoned in Libya six years under difficult conditions. After his release in 2010, participated in a series of "reconciliation" conferences between the regime and anti-Gaddafi Gaddafi Muslim extremists, led by Gaddafi's son and heir apparent Seif al-Islam, non-recurring. Ashour has participated in panels, as an observer.
Last week, Belhaj led the rebels took the compound of Gaddafi in Tripoli. But Belhaj exulting that "the tyrant fled," also "repeatedly called for better safety, property protection, ending the feud, and the construction of a new Libya," said Ashour.
In his interview with the Times yesterday, Belhaj said that despite past ties to the group with the Taliban, it is now totally focused on Libya's Gaddafi liberator of control, and no longer promote the cause of jihad world.
"We focused on Libya and Libya only" Belhaj told the Times. "Our goal was to help our people We do not participate or support any action outside of Libya, we never had no connection with Al Qaeda, and it could never be, we had another agenda, global fight ... was not our goal. "
As for his incarceration for six years and Libya and the reproduction of the CIA before it, said Belhaj his Times interview he does not want revenge.
"It was certainly very difficult, very difficult," said Belhaj Times, but added: "We are now in Libya, and we look forward to a peaceful future. I do not want revenge."
However, he added, he would not mind seeing his trial against his interrogators: "If a day is a legal way, I want to see my torturers to justice."
"Yes, [Belhaj] said he was detained by Malaysian authorities in 2004 upon arrival at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, where he was subjected to extraordinary rendition on behalf of the United States and sent to Thailand, "New York Times" Norland Rod wrote. "In Bangkok, Mr. Belhaj said he was tortured in a few days by two people he said were CIA agents, and, worse, bring him back to Libya, where he was thrown in a cell of solitary confinement for six years. "
A CIA spokesman said on Thursday sent to the agency refused to comment on the allegations Belhaj.
But the allegations suggest the challenge that Western diplomats in Libya: How much does the West know the influential faction of the rebels with the former Libyan Islamist jihad tapes? And how these relationships affect efforts to protect American interests in Libya in a post-Qadhafi?
Omar Ashour The scientist sums up the dilemma in an article published this week reported its Belhaj interview last year: "Is your leadership role means that the jihadists are configured to exploit the overthrow of the Gaddafi?"
Paramilitary Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which was founded in 1990, "led to three years of low-level insurgency in eastern Libya ... and I tried three times to assassinate Gaddafi in 1995 and 1996," said Ashour. When Qaddafi usually crushed Group in 1998, that "most of its leaders and members escaped and joined forces with the Taliban in Afghanistan," in which they have sworn allegiance to Mullah Omar, Taliban leader.
Last week, Belhaj led the rebels took the compound of Gaddafi in Tripoli. But Belhaj exulting that "the tyrant fled," also "repeatedly called for better safety, property protection, ending the feud, and the construction of a new Libya," said Ashour.
"We focused on Libya and Libya only" Belhaj told the Times. "Our goal was to help our people We do not participate or support any action outside of Libya, we never had no connection with Al Qaeda, and it could never be, we had another agenda, global fight ... was not our goal. "
As for his incarceration for six years and Libya and the reproduction of the CIA before it, said Belhaj his Times interview he does not want revenge.
"It was certainly very difficult, very difficult," said Belhaj Times, but added: "We are now in Libya, and we look forward to a peaceful future. I do not want revenge."
However, he added, he would not mind seeing his trial against his interrogators: "If a day is a legal way, I want to see my torturers to justice."
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