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Friday, 02 September 2011
Rebel military chief says he was tortured by CIA
The overthrow of Gaddafi has brought together strange allies, but few stranger than Abdulhakim Belhaj, the military commander of all rebel military forces in Tripoli, and Nato. An Islamist whom Gaddafi tried to have the US list as a terrorist, Mr Belhaj says he was tortured by CIA agents after being arrested in the Far East in 2004 and later handed over by them to Colonel Gaddafi for further torture and imprisonment in Libya. Mr Belhaj, the head of the military council for Tripoli, who led an...
Full Story: The Independent
 


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