Documents reveal how UK backed Gaddafi’s repression

By Robert Stevens; 29 October 2011 – WSWS
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/liby-o29.shtml

Documents found in the abandoned residence of the British Ambassador in Tripoli reveal the extent of the British government’s intimate relationships with the former Gaddafi government in Libya.

They provide further evidence of Britain’s lead role in the seizure, “rendition” and torture of opponents of Gaddafi’s regime. They expose as lies the claim that the seven-month US-led NATO bombing of Libya had anything to do with humanitarian concerns over the Gaddafi regime’s abuse of democratic rights. They also throw light on the “war on terror”

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