Libyan Rebel military chief says he was tortured by CIA

By Patrick Cockburn
The Independent
September 3, 2011

The overthrow of Gaddafi has brought together strange allies, but few stranger than Abdulhakim Belhaj, the military commander of all rebel military forces in Tripoli, and Nato. An Islamist whom Gaddafi tried to have the US list as a terrorist, Mr Belhaj says he was tortured by CIA agents after being arrested in the Far East in 2004 and later handed over by them to Colonel Gaddafi for further torture and imprisonment in Libya. 

Mr Belhaj, the head of the military council for Tripoli, who led an Islamist guerrilla organisation fighting the Gaddafi regime in the 1990s, told The Independent in an interview that he had been directly “tortured by CIA agents” in Thailand after being first arrested in Malaysia.

If true, his story is evidence of the close co-operation between the CIA and Colonel Gaddafi’s security services after the Libyan leader denounced the 9/11 attacks. After his stint in the hands of the CIA, Mr Belhaj was kept in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli. He says: “I was in prison for seven years during which I was subjected to torture as well as solitary confinement. I was even denied a shower for three years.” Other Libyan Islamist prisoners have related how they were sometimes taken from Abu Salim to be questioned by US officials in Tripoli.

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  1. Do you know whats ironic?

    TRUE:

    This not directly related in any way. However the earmarks of the CIA – a man marked, that was sent in to infitrate the russian FSB- by William J Clinton; as an operative of his administration was facing exicution in Frace.

    His life was spared – by france after discovering he was an intellegence perative of clinto- his nam was “VINCENT SATORI” and it revealde the plots of saladon milsovic army; and lead lutenient; paid by William Clinton.

    The CIA plot and an operatives to obtain technology on the russian submarines; IRKUSK; April of 1999, and a company known as YUGO manifactured in western privince of UKRAINE – and ended up bankrupting the russian auto corporation- AVTOTAZ. , vladimir putin, and even more recent statments of several eastern markets trying to salvage the industy.

    THE NEW WORLD ORDER- Bilderberg.

    That in part “France, Germany, and The Ukraine, all refused to aid or circumvent the attack on an invasion in IRAQ.

    Blaiming Tony Blair – M-16 as an attempt to regain control of thier faltering economy; and the refusal of workin with eastern europe.

    The truth behind – who was really responsible in the 7.4 trillion dollar high jacking ot the economy and jobs in this country.

    End of Report.

  2. STOP SAYING QADDAFI WAS OVERTHROWN!!! THE REAL LIBYANS ARE STILL FIGHTING AND QADDAFI IS STILL FIGHTING!! THIS NTC IS ILLEGAL!! WHY DO PEOPLE GIVE UP SO QUICKLY?!! “oh, cnn just said that qaddafi was overthrown, oh well..” FUCKING SHEEP!!! TO Patrick Cockburn: start wrighting in support of the true Libyans and stop saying, ” the overthrow of Qaddafi”. America is broke, does that mean America does not exist anymore? NO! The same goes for Libya in a way, regime wise…

  3. CIA are the terrorist and blame their evil acts on the innocent. They need to be held accountable and punished.

    • 1. END THE FED
      2. PRINT US NOTES
      3. End Vietnam
      4. Spread the CIA “to the 4 winds”

      4 reasons they shot Kennedy in the head and framed it on a CIA turncoat.

  4. Maintaining the patently false and ludicrous illusion that their Daniel Chapter 8 Show on 9/11 was somehow an “Islamist” (LOL) plot has been Job #1 at the Episcopal-Fascist al CIAduh Mafia for the last 10 years

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