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Libya: Muslim paid $639,000 by UK for its role in his rendition wanted for jihad attacks on oil terminals, airbase

Jan 7, 2019 12:29 pm By Robert Spencer

Rendition is “the practice of sending a foreign criminal or terrorist suspect covertly to be interrogated in a country with less rigorous regulations for the humane treatment of prisoners.”

Apparently in this case Abdel Hakim Belhaj was not exactly a random man on the street targeted for torture by the Gaddafi regime. Leftists love to portray Guantanamo inmates and people such as Abdel Hakim Belhaj as innocent victims of the West’s “Islamophobia.” Reality is, as always, not so easy.

Also: what did he use the money for?

“Tortured dissident who won £500,000 from Britain for its role in his rendition in 2004 is wanted ‘for terror attacks on oil terminals and an airbase’ in Libya,” Daily Mail, January 7, 2019:

War-torn Libya has issued an arrest warrant for a dissident given £500,000 by the British government for its role in his rendition.

Adbel Hakim Belhaj is wanted over his alleged involvement in terror attacks on oil terminals and on an airbase in southern Libya.

Mr Belhaj, who leads the country’s pro-Islamist Watan Party…denied the allegations against him, which centre on reports that Sudanese and Chadian mercenaries were paid to create chaos in Libya. And he claimed the warrant was ‘a plot by those in control of security in Tripoli to distance me from the political scene’….

Mr Belhaj, who was the leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which was allied to al Qaeda and the Taliban, received an apology from Theresa May last year for Britain’s role in his rendition and that of his pregnant wife.

He said the CIA abducted them in Thailand and handed them to the Gaddafi regime – where he was tortured – following a tip-off from British intelligence.

Belhaj spent six years taking legal action in UK courts against British officials…

…[he] is still seen as a controversial figure that threatens to disrupt the government in Tripoli.

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  1. b.a. freeman says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 12:59 pm

    too bad the CIA didn’t ask the libyans to return him to our custody when they were finished with him; he could have accidentally died in a freak accident. we need to acknowledge that we are in a war for survival, and in war, *ANYTHING* that ensures the survival of our side is a good thing. those who pretend not to be in a war will lose the war, and then all their precious virtue-signaling won’t be worth a rat’s a**, because the winners don’t practice any of the virtues the left pretends to have.

    and BTW, this is also why war really is the most horrible human-caused circumstance. if it took 2 parties to make a war, almost everybody would avoid it; unfortunately, it only takes one agressor, and if the side that is attacked refuses to defend itself, it will lose and become subject to the attacker. this is pretty basic, but the only successful leftist endeavor, the indoctrination of the young of the victim nations that it is attacking (that’s the u.s., canada, the EU, … in fact, every non-leftist state in existence), has ensured that most people who were “educated” (indoctrinated) in the past 2 or 3 decades have no clue what is going on. it will take decades to reverse course and produce educated people again, but there will be an instantiation of a people’s republic long before that time, especially since there is no general understanding of the attacks on us; nothing happens until that time. civilization is pretty much toast.

  2. gravenimage says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 7:36 pm

    Libya: Muslim paid $639,000 by UK for its role in his rendition wanted for jihad attacks on oil terminals, airbase
    ………………………………..

    So the British taxpayer wound up funding violent Jihad…

  3. Brian Ozzy says

    Jan 8, 2019 at 4:04 am

    What’s happened to the Islamic Terrorist Attacks counter? It seems to have been stuck on 34,247 for a long time now. Keep up the good work on that statistic.

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