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February 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Jack Doyle
Last updated at 8:24 AM on 1st February 2012
Suing: Abdel Hakim Belhadj (pictured) and Sami Al Saadi claim Sir Mark played a key role in handing them over to Libya where they were tortured
A senior British spy faces legal action from two men who accuse him of handing them over to Colonel Gaddafi’s torturers.
Sir Mark Allen, the former head of counter terrorism at MI6, is being sued by two senior Libyan rebel leaders who accuse him of complicity in torture.
Abdel Hakim Belhadj and Sami Al Saadi
say Sir Mark played a key role in transferring them into Libyan custody –
where they were subject to horrendous mistreatment.
Both are separately suing the British Government for £1million but in new legal actions they are targeting Sir Mark personally. The cases raise the prospect of the former spy chief appearing in court to face the allegations.
Belhadj, who is now a senior figure in the Libyan regime, says Sir Mark played a key role in having him and his wife Fatima illegally captured and flown to North Africa.
There Gaddafi’s henchmen strung him up by his wrists, drugged him and beat him mercilessly.
Among the claims are that Sir Mark is guilty of complicity in torture, conspiracy to injury, misfeasance in public office and negligence.
Details of Britain’s alleged involvement in the case first emerged in secret documents found in the Tripoli headquarters of Gaddafi’s former spy chief Musa Kusa.
The new legal action was started last week when papers were served on Sir Mark, who left MI6 (building pictured above) in 2004 to work for energy giant BP
In the files was a March 2004 letter to Kusa, believed to have been written by Sir Mark, in which he tries to take credit for helping to apprehend Belhadj, saying it was ‘the least we could do for you’.
Referring to Belhadj by his alias, he wrote: ‘Amusingly, we got a request from the Americans to channel requests for information from Abu Abd Allah through the Americans. I have no intention of doing any such thing. The intelligence about Abu Abd Allah was British.’
Belhadj was captured in Bangkok, Thailand, in March 2004 and passed into the custody of the CIA who rendered him to Tripoli via the British Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia.
A senior British spy faces legal action from two men who accuse him of handing them over to Colonel Gaddafi’s (pictured) torturers
The documents also suggest British complicity in case of al Saadi, like Belhadj a leading member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which Britain feared had links to Al Qaeda.
A fax found in the same haul was sent by the CIA to Kusa in March 2004, and appears to suggest Britain’s direct involvement in an operation to ‘render’ al Saadi to Libya.
Shortly afterwards, Libyan agents put al Saadi on a plane in Hong Kong with his wife and four children. On their arrival in Tripoli he and his wife were handcuffed and hooded.
He was held for six years and claims he was subject to electric shock treatment and beaten. He also claims British agents questioned him while he was in custody.
The new legal action was started last week when papers were served on Sir Mark, who left Mi6 in 2004 to work for energy giant BP.
Both sets of allegations are the subject of an on-going criminal investigation by Scotland Yard. The criminal investigation led to ministers pulling the plug last month on Sir Peter Gibson’s inquiry into torture allegations.
Cori Crider, legal director of campaign group Reprieve said: ‘Abedelhakim Belhadj and Sami al-Saadi deserve an explanation for the appalling abuses they – and their families – suffered.
‘The documents showing the UK’s involvement in their rendition back to Gaddafi’ s Libya appear to have Mark Allen’s name all over them – yet we’ve not had a word out of him since they became public last year.
‘We need to know whether Britain’s involvement in delivering Gaddafi’s opponents back into his hands was authorised from the top.
‘If so, Sir Mark needs to bring that defence, so we can hear who it was that signed off on this shameful affair.’
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What’s the betting there is a British lawyer involved in this ?
– Geoff, Leeds, 01/2/2012 06:32 The last time I heard the main man of Repreive on TV he had an antipodean twang to his voice. So at least this country does not discriminate and we let anyone set up an organisation to bash this country and then assist them with legal aid. Priceless.
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Sir Mark had better lock his bedroom door every night because there are some very, very well connected snakes, of the kind he worked amongst no doubt, nervously conniving to ensure the blame trail does not run back up the chain to whomever approved such flights when in No.10.
One TB now gets millions out of dodgy geezers all over the globe, so pay particular attention to strangers with deep voices who suddenly insist you ordered a pint of milk, or similar.
The snake pit is writhing.
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This now opens the flood gates for ex prime ministers to be sued. Bring it on.
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Who is acting for these two Libyan gentlemen: Sherie Booth QC?
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Who will be funding this claim? UK Taxpayer Legal Aid? Why does this country allow foreigners to make these claims, it makes me angry.
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If Mark Allen is guilty there is no reason he should be protected from the the judgement of the Law. Prosecuting some of our “high and mighty” is in out interests as well as the Libyan’s. Readers do realise this (alleged) torture occured to protect and defend the “evil” Ghaddafi regime? Perhaps if guilty men found themselves banged up it might be a powerful messages to others to stay within the Law
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This could only happen in this crazy country.
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Just ignore them, simple!
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What’s the betting there is a British lawyer involved in this ?
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Another knighthood gone
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