The CIA and Libya's Spy Unit

[bloodyminded]

From the OP:

Documents found at the abandoned office of Libya’s former spymaster appear to provide new details of the close relations the Central Intelligence Agency shared with the Libyan intelligence service — most notably suggesting that the Americans sent terrorism suspects at least eight times for questioning in Libya despite that country’s reputation for torture.

"Despite," eh?

[GostHacked]

From the OP:

"Despite," eh?

Not only that it seems that a couple of the former vacationers who did the all inclusive package to Guantanamo Bay, are now causing problems for Gadaffi and the rebels, because they are Al-Queda.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/09/islamic-spring-libyan-rebels-release-hundreds-of-pro-al-qaeda-militants-from-prison-video/

Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, September 1, 2011, 8:01 PM

Islamic Spring…

After rebels took Tripoli they released over 600 pro-Al-Qaeda militants from prison in Libya.

CNN reported, via Atlas Shrugs:

Hundreds of Islamist militants were among the prisoners freed from a notorious Tripoli prison this week, according to a former Libyan jihadist.

The freed militants had been imprisoned in Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison by Moammar Gadhafi’s regime during the height of the insurgency in Iraq, according to Noman Benotman, once a senior figure in the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. Benotman said he believes as many as 600 militants may have been among the prison population at Abu Salim.

It’s not known how many prisoners were held in the vast facility. Human Rights Watch said Gadhafi’s prisons “have been filled to the limit in the last few months with thousands of people who were arrested for taking part in the anti-Gadhafi protests, or because of their suspected support for Libya’s democratic opposition.”

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-26/world/libya.militants.analysis_1_libyan-islamic-fighting-group-prison-population-moammar-gadhafi?_s=PM:WORLD

Hundreds of Islamist militants were among the prisoners freed from a notorious Tripoli prison this week, according to a former Libyan jihadist.

The freed militants had been imprisoned in Tripoli's Abu Salim prison by Moammar Gadhafi's regime during the height of the insurgency in Iraq, according to Noman Benotman, once a senior figure in the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. Benotman said he believes as many as 600 militants may have been among the prison population at Abu Salim.

and

Gadhafi's regime imprisoned thousands of suspected pro-al Qaeda militants after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq stoked radicalization in Libya, especially in its impoverished eastern provinces. According to Benotman, those rounded up by the regime included militants who had tried to travel to Iraq and some who had returned from fighting against U.S. forces there. He said many of them had already been released by the Gadhafi regime.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/world/guantanamo-files-libyan-detainee-now-us-ally-of-sorts.html

DARNAH, Libya — For more than five years, Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda bin Qumu was a prisoner at the Guantánamo Bay prison, judged “a probable member of Al Qaeda” by the analysts there. They concluded in a newly disclosed 2005 assessment that his release would represent a “medium to high risk, as he is likely to pose a threat to the U.S., its interests and allies.”

Today, Mr. Qumu, 51, is a notable figure in the Libyan rebels’ fight to oust Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, reportedly a leader of a ragtag band of fighters known as the Darnah Brigade for his birthplace, this shabby port town of 100,000 people in northeast Libya. The former enemy and prisoner of the United States is now an ally of sorts, a remarkable turnabout resulting from shifting American policies rather than any obvious change in Mr. Qumu.

[Stormer]

Just imagine! The global advocacy group Human Rights Watch again calls on the US government to investigate and prosecute former senior Bush administration officials for torture, committed under their leadership all over the world. The new 107-page report (http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2011/07/12/getting-away-torture) presents substantial information warranting criminal investigations of former President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and CIA Director George Tenet, for ordering practices such as "waterboarding", the use of secret CIA prisons and the transfer of detainees to countries where they could be easily tortured!

It is well known that their acts violated the International Convention against Torture, the laws of war and other international treaties binding on the USA. And after it these US leaders have dared to proclaim principles of democracy all over the world! In fact, the Human Rights Watch’s report has shown us full impunity of US top officials for so serious human rights violations. And if Obama’s administration wants to return to real values of democracy, it must do all possible in order those, who authorized, ordered and oversaw torture and other serious violations of international law, would be brought to punishment for such crimes, including at the most senior levels!

[bush_cheney2004]

.... And if Obama’s administration wants to return to real values of democracy, it must do all possible in order those, who authorized, ordered and oversaw torture and other serious violations of international law, would be brought to punishment for such crimes, including at the most senior levels!

Who says they do? Obama would have to bring indictments against every living US president, including himself! Not going to happen...not in the USA, not in Canada, not in the UK, or anyplace else where "democracy" wins the war.