British secret service admits rendition of Libyan opposition leaders bolstered Al-Qaeda – report

The abduction of two key leaders of a Libyan opposition group with the assistance of MI6 a decade ago left the group in disarray and led to outside influences pushing it towards an Al-Qaeda-inspired agenda, an intelligence assessment concludes.
Abdel Hakim Belhaj and Sami al-Saadi made sure that that the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), which they led, concentrated on the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi.
Belhaj and al-Saadi were seized in Thailand and Hong Kong in 2004 and then rendered to Tripoli with Saadi’s wife and four children and Belhaj’s pregnant wife.
But a report by MI5 written 11 months later concluded that while their capture weakened the LIFG, it also strengthened al-Qaeda’s hand in the region, The Guardian reports.
“While these senior-ranking members have always jealously guarded the independence of the LIFG, providing it with a clear command structure and set goals, the group is now coming under pressure from outside influences,” the assessment says. “In particular, reporting indicates that members including Abu Laith al-Libi and Abdallah al-Ghaffar may be pushing the group towards a more pan-Islamic agenda inspired by AQ [al-Qaida].”
Two years after this assessment, the LIFG formally joined forces with Al-Qaeda and al-Libi orchestrated a series of deadly suicide attacks across Afghanistan, including one in 2007, which killed 23 people at NATO’s Bagram airfield.
The classified MI5 document was found among hundreds of highly sensitive and embarrassing files relating to Libyan and British intelligence operations in official buildings, which had been abandoned during the 2011 revolution that toppled Gaddafi.

British secret service admits rendition of Libyan opposition leaders bolstered Al-Qaeda – report Libyan-opposition-al-qaeda.si

British secret service admits rendition of Libyan opposition leaders bolstered Al-Qaeda – report Libyan-opposition-al-qaeda.si

http://rt.com/uk/227583-libyan-opposition-al-qaeda/
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British secret service admits rendition of Libyan opposition leaders bolstered Al-Qaeda – report

British secret service admits rendition of Libyan opposition leaders bolstered Al-Qaeda – report

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