{"id":366116,"date":"2018-06-20T19:35:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T18:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/belhaj-case-lifts-the-veil-on-britains-dirty-wars-for-regime-change-part-two\/"},"modified":"2018-06-20T19:35:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T18:35:46","slug":"belhaj-case-lifts-the-veil-on-britains-dirty-wars-for-regime-change-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/belhaj-case-lifts-the-veil-on-britains-dirty-wars-for-regime-change-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Belhaj case lifts the veil on Britain\u2019s dirty wars for regime change: Part two"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Belhaj case lifts the veil on Britain\u2019s dirty wars for regime change: Part two<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Jean Shaoul<br \/>\n    <br \/>20 June 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p> <em>This is the second of a two-part series.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/06\/19\/belh-j19.html\"> <em>Part one<\/em> <\/a> <em>was posted on June 19.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Irrefutable evidence<\/h4>\n<p>Documents found in abandoned government offices in Tripoli after the 2011 NATO-led invasion of Libya included a letter from Sir Mark Allen, a senior officer in Britain\u2019s spy agency MI6, to Libya\u2019s intelligence chief, Musa Kusa, who switched sides and fled to Britain, showing that the CIA, with help from British intelligence, used Diego Garcia as a stopover for rendering Belhaj and his pregnant wife.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter dated March 2004, Allen congratulated Kusa on the \u201csafe arrival\u201d of Belhaj and added, \u201cThis was the least we could do for you and for Libya to demonstrate the remarkable relationship we have built over recent years.\u201d He added that while the CIA had provided the aircraft for the rendition operation, \u201cthe intelligence \u2026 was British.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same documents revealed that Britain\u2019s SAS was involved in training the Khamis Brigade, commanded by one of Gaddafi\u2019s sons and thought to have been behind some of the worst atrocities during the war to overthrow Gaddafi. Ninety of these killers were brought to Britain for instruction, before going back to Libya with Blair\u2019s stamp of approval.<\/p>\n<p>The papers noted that officials observed that \u201cthe UK is prepared to do anything to maintain its commercial and other ties with Libya.\u201d Blair helped Gaddafi\u2019s son and heir, Saif al-Islam, obtain his PhD thesis\u2014reportedly plagiarised\u2014while at the London School of Economics.<\/p>\n<p>The papers relating to Britain and MI6\u2019s collaboration with Gaddafi were so voluminous that they far exceed those relating to the CIA. None of this stopped Blair, and his successors Gordon&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/06\/20\/bel2-j20.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Belhaj case lifts the veil on Britain\u2019s dirty wars for regime change: Part two By Jean Shaoul 20 June 2018 This is the second of a two-part series. Part one was posted on June 19. Irrefutable evidence Documents found in abandoned government offices in Tripoli after the 2011 NATO-led invasion of Libya included a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-366116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}