What Obama does not want you to know about Gaddafi

CIA and U.S. Government worked closely with Gaddafi's regime (and even helped him write his speeches)

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:13 PM on 3rd September 2011

American intelligence co-operated closely with Muammar Gaddafi's regime, according to reports based on documents found in Libyan government offices.
The papers allegedly show that the U.S. sent terrorism suspects at least eight times for questioning in Libya despite the country's reputation for torture.
They reveal new details of the close relationship between the two countries, including how CIA officers helped Gaddafi write a speech to show him in a positive light.

Close relationship: The documents include a speech written for Gaddafi by the CIA (file picture)

The documents were discovered in the Tripoli offices of former head of Libyan intelligence Moussa Koussa and also include talks between British intelligence organisation MI6 and the Gaddafi regime.
Reports of such cooperation have surfaced before, but the documents provide new details on the ties between Western countries and Gaddafi's regime.

Many of those same countries backed the NATO attacks that helped Libya's rebels force Gadhafi from power.
One notable case is that of Abdel-Hakim Belhaj, commander of the anti-Gaddafi rebel force that now controls Tripoli.
Belhaj is the former leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a now-dissolved militant group with links to al-Qaeda.

New regime: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Libyan National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil and head of Libya's rebel National Transitional Council Mahmoud Jibril attend a bilateral meeting in Paris September 1 2011

Belhaj says he was tortured by CIA agents at a secret prison, then returned to Libya.
Two documents from March 2004 appear to be American correspondence to Libyan officials to arrange Belhaj's rendition.
Referring to him by his nom de guerre, Abdullah al-Sadiq, the documents say he will be flown from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Libya and asks for Libyan government agents to accompany him.
It also requests American 'access to al-Sadiq for debriefing purposes once he is in your custody.'
'Please be advised that we must be assured that al-Sadiq will be treated humanely and that his human rights will be respected,' the document says.

Discovery: The documents were found in an abandoned government building (file picture)

Another document in a folder marked CIA seems to be a speech drafted for Gaddai just before Christmas in 2003.
The one-page speech appears intended to depict the Libyan dictator in a positive light.
It concluded: 'At a time when the world is celebrating the birth of Jesus, and as a token of our contributions towards a world full of peace, security, stability and compassion, the Great Jamhariya [revolutionary name for Libya] presents its honest call for a WMD-free zone in the Middle East,' referring to weapons of mass destruction.
Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch, which found the documents, called the ties between Washington and Gaddafi's regime 'a very dark chapter in American intelligence history, and it remains a stain on the record of the American intelligence services that they cooperated with these very abusive intelligence services.'
In Washington, CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood declined to comment on any specific allegation related to the documents.
'It can't come as a surprise that the Central Intelligence Agency works with foreign governments to help protect our country from terrorism and other deadly threats,' she said. 'That is exactly what we are expected to do.'


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