Fisk writes: "Gaddafi's spymaster Abdullah al-Senussi will be shot in Libya
before he has a chance to tell us about the cosy relationship he had with
our Western security services when he liaised between his boss, the CIA and
MI6."
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi with Abdullah al-Senussi, his intelligence chief and
brother-in-law. (photo: EPA)
Execution of Gaddafi's Spymaster: A Perversion of Justice That Suits Western
Security Services
By Robert Fisk, The Independent
04 August 15
The secret agreements between our intelligence and Gaddafis torturers will
now remain safe for good
Shutting them up. Thats what its about. The hangmans drop, the crackle of
the firing squad, and their secrets go to the grave.
Saddam Hussein didnt get the chance to tell us about his dealings with the
US and German companies who provided the gas he used on the Kurds. And now
Gaddafis spymaster Abdullah al-Senussi will be shot in Libya before he has
a chance to tell us about the cosy relationship he had with our Western
security services when he liaised between his boss, the CIA and MI6.
Not surprising, is it despite Amnestys outrage at the charade of a trial
and the UN human rights office being deeply disturbed by the sentences
that the Brits and Americans have not batted an eyelid since Senussi,
Gaddafis son Saif and a bunch of other regime cohorts were sentenced to
death last week without defence counsel or testimony or documents or
witnesses? All those secret nudge-nudge agreements between Gaddafis odious
torturers and our intelligence services will remain safe for ever. So
everything is hunky-dory. Thank God for Libyan justice.
Now, of course, these men are a most unsavoury bunch. Senussi himself is
held responsible for the massacre of more than a thousand of Gaddafis
political prisoners. But he and his successor, Moussa Koussa who protests
that he never tortured anyone and can now be found relaxing in his villa in
Qatar because the Brits and Americans are grateful to him for fingering
al-Qaeda agents in Africa were among the most loyal of Gaddafis henchmen.
If you sup with the devil, you have a good chance of dying with him or, at
least, after a fair trial. But justice à la Nuremberg is supposed to
involve full disclosure of the crimes of the accused.
The trial run (in both senses of the word) was Saddam. The Iraqi dictators
most monstrous crime was his gassing of the Kurds at Hallabja in 1988, which
killed up to 5,000 men, women and children. Yet his 2005 Anglo-American show
trial concentrated on the execution of 140 Shia men in the town of Dujail in
1982. Yes, yes, I know thats an atrocity, but Hallabja was genocide. This
focus allowed the careful avoidance of any cross-examination that would
touch on how Saddam had acquired the gas to extinguish all those souls. One
gas component company was based in New Jersey. By the time Saddams henchmen
were questioned about Halabja, their boss had already been hanged.
Crimes against humanity certainly involved Abdullah al-Senussi, including
the torture of Libyan exiles after their barbaric rendition to Libya with
the help of MI6 and other Western agencies. He provided the reception party
of thugs at the Tripoli end, and read the information they provided after
torture. Human rights groups regarded Senussi as the black box recorder of
the secret liaisons that began after Tony Blair so delicately kissed The
Great Leader himself. Senussi knew far more about our spying agencies and
their dirty tricks than Saif al-Gaddafi the late Muammars son who has
also conveniently been sentenced to death. Maybe thats why Senussi
initially did a runner to Mauritania, which should have handed him over to
The Hague. But after according to Libyan parliamentarians receiving a
bribe of $200m, Mauritania returned him to Tripoli.
Once there, maybe Senussi did spill the beans about our dirty deeds. His
daughter, Anoud, told me that when she saw her father in a Tripoli prison
long before his trial, he had apparently been beaten on the eyes and nose
and was very weak, weighing less than 35 kilos (about five and a half
stone). He had been threatened [that] he would be hurt if he spoke about
his treatment.
So what had he been forced to tell his torturers then? And who, since we
know that MI6 and the CIA write out the information they want from Arab
torturers, composed the questions? Almost two years ago, Anoud told me that
her father would not get a safe trial. She was right about that.
Senussis international counsel, Ben Emmerson QC, knew something was very
wrong with the case when the International Criminal Court at The Hague first
accepted that Senussi could be tried by the militia-haunted court in
Tripoli. These custodians of the law did ask, however, for Saif Gaddafi to
be sent to The Hague. Because he knew less?
Either way, they didnt get their man. He was sentenced to death by the same
kangaroo court as Senussi, via video link to the militia-controlled town
where hes been held since his capture in 2011. Emmerson told me in 2013
that when Senussis lawyers wanted to know if MI6 operatives had
interrogated their client while he was in Mauritania before his illegal
rendition to Libya William Hague, the Foreign Secretary at the time,
declined to answer.
At the weekend, Ben Emmerson deplored the death sentence because Senussi had
no legal representation, no access to his family, no ability to prepare his
defence, and no possibility of challenging the prosecution. The trial has
been conducted in an atmosphere of extreme fear, insecurity and
intimidation, he said, in which judicial officials and defence lawyers
have been threatened and physically attacked.
As another Brit who had tried long and hard to defend Senussi also said to
me at the weekend: All in the know are going to be shot. Not that
Gaddafis victims received better justice. But it was Blair who kissed the
wretched man and David Cameron who helped to destroy him.
We are responsible for what happens in Libya today. We are thus even
responsible for the death sentence against Senussi. But when the rifles spit
their bullets at dawn in two months time, quite a few British operatives in
that weird building by the Thames will breathe a sigh of relief.
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Execution of Gaddafi's Spymaster: A Perversion of Justice That Suits Western
Security Services
By Robert Fisk, The Independent
04 August 15
The secret agreements between our intelligence and Gaddafis torturers will
now remain safe for good
hutting them up. Thats what its about. The hangmans drop, the crackle of
the firing squad, and their secrets go to the grave.
Saddam Hussein didnt get the chance to tell us about his dealings with the
US and German companies who provided the gas he used on the Kurds. And now
Gaddafis spymaster Abdullah al-Senussi will be shot in Libya before he has
a chance to tell us about the cosy relationship he had with our Western
security services when he liaised between his boss, the CIA and MI6.
Not surprising, is it despite Amnestys outrage at the charade of a trial
and the UN human rights office being deeply disturbed by the sentences
that the Brits and Americans have not batted an eyelid since Senussi,
Gaddafis son Saif and a bunch of other regime cohorts were sentenced to
death last week without defence counsel or testimony or documents or
witnesses? All those secret nudge-nudge agreements between Gaddafis odious
torturers and our intelligence services will remain safe for ever. So
everything is hunky-dory. Thank God for Libyan justice.
Now, of course, these men are a most unsavoury bunch. Senussi himself is
held responsible for the massacre of more than a thousand of Gaddafis
political prisoners. But he and his successor, Moussa Koussa who protests
that he never tortured anyone and can now be found relaxing in his villa in
Qatar because the Brits and Americans are grateful to him for fingering
al-Qaeda agents in Africa were among the most loyal of Gaddafis henchmen.
If you sup with the devil, you have a good chance of dying with him or, at
least, after a fair trial. But justice à la Nuremberg is supposed to
involve full disclosure of the crimes of the accused.
The trial run (in both senses of the word) was Saddam. The Iraqi dictators
most monstrous crime was his gassing of the Kurds at Hallabja in 1988, which
killed up to 5,000 men, women and children. Yet his 2005 Anglo-American show
trial concentrated on the execution of 140 Shia men in the town of Dujail in
1982. Yes, yes, I know thats an atrocity, but Hallabja was genocide. This
focus allowed the careful avoidance of any cross-examination that would
touch on how Saddam had acquired the gas to extinguish all those souls. One
gas component company was based in New Jersey. By the time Saddams henchmen
were questioned about Halabja, their boss had already been hanged.
Crimes against humanity certainly involved Abdullah al-Senussi, including
the torture of Libyan exiles after their barbaric rendition to Libya with
the help of MI6 and other Western agencies. He provided the reception party
of thugs at the Tripoli end, and read the information they provided after
torture. Human rights groups regarded Senussi as the black box recorder of
the secret liaisons that began after Tony Blair so delicately kissed The
Great Leader himself. Senussi knew far more about our spying agencies and
their dirty tricks than Saif al-Gaddafi the late Muammars son who has
also conveniently been sentenced to death. Maybe thats why Senussi
initially did a runner to Mauritania, which should have handed him over to
The Hague. But after according to Libyan parliamentarians receiving a
bribe of $200m, Mauritania returned him to Tripoli.
Once there, maybe Senussi did spill the beans about our dirty deeds. His
daughter, Anoud, told me that when she saw her father in a Tripoli prison
long before his trial, he had apparently been beaten on the eyes and nose
and was very weak, weighing less than 35 kilos (about five and a half
stone). He had been threatened [that] he would be hurt if he spoke about
his treatment.
So what had he been forced to tell his torturers then? And who, since we
know that MI6 and the CIA write out the information they want from Arab
torturers, composed the questions? Almost two years ago, Anoud told me that
her father would not get a safe trial. She was right about that.
Senussis international counsel, Ben Emmerson QC, knew something was very
wrong with the case when the International Criminal Court at The Hague first
accepted that Senussi could be tried by the militia-haunted court in
Tripoli. These custodians of the law did ask, however, for Saif Gaddafi to
be sent to The Hague. Because he knew less?
Either way, they didnt get their man. He was sentenced to death by the same
kangaroo court as Senussi, via video link to the militia-controlled town
where hes been held since his capture in 2011. Emmerson told me in 2013
that when Senussis lawyers wanted to know if MI6 operatives had
interrogated their client while he was in Mauritania before his illegal
rendition to Libya William Hague, the Foreign Secretary at the time,
declined to answer.
At the weekend, Ben Emmerson deplored the death sentence because Senussi had
no legal representation, no access to his family, no ability to prepare his
defence, and no possibility of challenging the prosecution. The trial has
been conducted in an atmosphere of extreme fear, insecurity and
intimidation, he said, in which judicial officials and defence lawyers
have been threatened and physically attacked.
As another Brit who had tried long and hard to defend Senussi also said to
me at the weekend: All in the know are going to be shot. Not that
Gaddafis victims received better justice. But it was Blair who kissed the
wretched man and David Cameron who helped to destroy him.
We are responsible for what happens in Libya today. We are thus even
responsible for the death sentence against Senussi. But when the rifles spit
their bullets at dawn in two months time, quite a few British operatives in
that weird building by the Thames will breathe a sigh of relief.
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