As of March 26, we're $27,100 in the red for the quarter. Donate here to support this vital work
Subscribe here and join over 13,000 subscribers to our free weekly newsletter

Abdullah al-Senussi execution: This perversion of justice suits Western security services just fine
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers)


The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers), August 6, 2015
Posted: August 16th, 2015
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/abdullah-alsenussi-execu...

The secret agreements between our intelligence and Gaddafis torturers will now remain safe for good. Gaddafis spymaster Abdullah al-Senussi will be shot in Libya before he has a chance to tell us about the cosy relationship he had with our Western security services when he liaised between his boss, the CIA and MI6. The Brits and Americans have not batted an eyelid since Senussi, Gaddafis son Saif and a bunch of other regime cohorts were sentenced to death last week without defence counsel or testimony or documents or witnesses. Senussi himself is held responsible for the massacre of more than a thousand of Gaddafis political prisoners. But he and his successor, Moussa Koussa ... were among the most loyal of Gaddafis henchmen. [His] crimes against humanity [included] the torture of Libyan exiles after their barbaric rendition to Libya with the help of MI6 and other Western agencies. Senussi knew far more about our spying agencies and their dirty tricks than Saif al-Gaddafi the late Muammars son. Maybe thats why Senussi initially did a runner to Mauritania, which should have handed him over to The Hague. But after receiving a bribe of $200m, Mauritania returned him to Tripoli. Senussis international counsel, Ben Emmerson ... told me in 2013 that when Senussis lawyers wanted to know if MI6 operatives had interrogated their client while he was in Mauritania before his illegal rendition to Libya William Hague, the Foreign Secretary at the time, declined to answer.

Note: The British government is presently being sued by victims of the cooperative arrangement between MI6 and Libyan torturers. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles about corruption in the intelligence community and government.


Latest News


Key News Articles from Years Past