Britons urged to leave Benghazi over 'imminent threat'
Foreign Office minister David Lidington MP: ''Don't delay... leave'' Britons should leave the Libyan city of Benghazi immediately in response to a "specific, imminent threat" to Westerners, the Foreign Office says. The British Embassy in Tripoli has been in contact with a "small number" of British nationals whose details it had. Germany and the Netherlands have also urged their citizens to leave B
Government pays Libyan dissident's family £2.2m over MI6-aided rendition
Ministers have agree to pay more than £2m to the family of a prominent Libyan dissident abducted with the help of MI6 and secretly flown to Tripoli where he was tortured by the security police of the former dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Having sought for years to avoid the agents of the Libyan dictator, Sami al-Saadi was forced on board a plane in Hong Kong with his wife and four young children in a j
MI5 'gave Libyan spies details of dissidents in Britain'
The UK's intelligence services have come under renewed pressure with the emergence of a fresh cache of secret documents that suggest MI5 officers forced Libyans seeking asylum in Britain to co-operate with the regime they had fled. For the last three months, Scotland Yard detectives have been investigating MI6's alleged involvement in two so-called rendition operations that saw two Libyan dissiden
How secret renditions shed light on MI6's licence to kill and torture
In fiction, James Bond drew quite judiciously upon his licence to kill, bumping off just 38 adversaries in a dozen Ian Fleming novels. In each case, the individual received his or her just deserts. In real life, MI6 insists its officers do not kill anyone. "Assassination," its former head Sir Richard Dearlove has said, "is no part of the policy of Her Majesty's government" and would be entirely co
Libya commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj to sue UK government
A Libyan military commander has started legal action against the UK government, which he claims was complicit in his illegal rendition and torture. Abdel Hakim Belhaj said he and his wife were detained in Bangkok in 2004, then transferred to Abu Salim jail, Tripoli. He said he was held there for six years and often tortured. The UK Foreign Office does not comment on intelligence matters, but says
Foreign Office asked Oxford to admit Gaddafi son as student
The Foreign Office lobbied Oxford university to accept Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam as a student in the hope of encouraging a rapprochement with Libya, an inquiry has found. An investigation by Lord Woolf, a former lord chief justice, has underlined the support shown by the British government and UK firms for the dictator's son as companies scented opportunities to do business with Libya. T
Britain sends officials to Libya to help destroy chemical weapons
Britain is sending officials to Libya to help the government to investigate the scale of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's secret chemical weapons stockpile, retained by the Libyan dictator in breach of promises made to the international community. The size of the stockpile – including mustard gas – suggests Gaddafi totally misled Tony Blair when he promised to destroy weapons of mass destruction in retur
No celebration for Col Muammar Gaddafi victims
PC Yvonne Fletcher was fatally shot outside the Libyan Embassy in London in 1984 A police officer who was on duty with PC Yvonne Fletcher when she was murdered has said Col Gaddafi's death is no cause for celebration. John Murray described the former Libyan leader's death as "the worst result I could imagine" and said it left many questions unanswered. The dad of a Lockerbie bombing victim said it
How MI6 deal sent family to Gaddafi's jail
A Libyan Islamist has told how he and his family were imprisoned after being "rendered" in an operation MI6 hatched in co-operation with Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence services. The rendition occurred shortly before Tony Blair paid his first visit to the dictator. Sami al-Saadi, his wife and four children, the youngest a girl aged six, were flown from Hong Kong to Tripoli, where they were taken st
Moussa Koussa's secret letters betray Britain's Libyan connection
Thank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in Moussa Koussa's secret letters betray Britain's Libyan connectionMessages found in his office show how MI6 gave details of dissident exiles to Gaddafi – and how the CIA used regime for rendition
Libya: the minister, the Tory donor and a contract to supply oil - Telegraph
The deal with Vitol was said to have been masterminded by Alan Duncan, the former oil trader turned junior minister, who has close business links to the oil firm and was previously a director of one of its subsidiaries. Mr Duncan’s private office received funding from the head of Vitol before the general election. Ian Taylor, the company’s chief executive and a friend of Mr Duncan, has given more
Libya conflict: Nato jets hit Gaddafi Sirte bunker
Libyan rebels are also building up their forces on the road to the town British Tornado jets fired precision-guided missiles at a large bunker in Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, officials have said. The aircraft took off from RAF Marham in Norfolk on a long-range strike mission on Thursday night. The Libyan rebels are building up their forces east of Sirte, in preparation fo
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