Libyan dissident tortured by Gaddafi to sue Britain over rendition

MI6

Sami al-Saadi alleged accomplices of his capture - and is also the MI5, the Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Interior

a Libyan dissident is to launch legal action against the British government after a cache of secret documents discovered in Tripoli to reveal the fundamental role of MI6 in its delivery in the prisons of Muammar Gaddafi.

In a case that threatens to cause acute discomfort that some former ministers in the last Labour government and intelligence officials, Sami al-Saadi is claiming damages in the UK during the years of acts of torture suffered thereafter.

Saadi has hired the same team of lawyers who represented Binyam Mohamed, a former Guantanamo detainee. Who have applied the names that the defendants not only MI6, MI5, but also the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of the Interior and the Attorney General's office. They also asked Scotland Yard to launch a criminal investigation.

earlier this week demanded that the government lawyers to disclose copies of all communications to mention all of the UK and Libya delivery operation. It is unclear whether any of those communications in order to identify the ministers said Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, who authorized the operation.

a series of Whitehall officials have told The Guardian deliveries were the result of "government policy ministerial approval."

The case is currently based on a series of documents that Human Rights Watch, New York, NGOs, found last month in the office of the former intelligence chief Gaddafi abandoned, Moussa Koussa. Among them is a fax sent to the CIA in March 2004 Koussa, demonstrating that the agency was eager to join the Saadi delivery operation after learning that the government and MI6 Gaddafi were about to embark on it.

Two days after sending the fax, Tony Blair went to Tripoli to meet Gaddafi. The two men embraced and said he wanted to make "common cause" in the operations against terrorism. The Libyans then announced they had signed a £ 550 million gas exploration with Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant. Three days later, Libyan intelligence agents, including a plan Saadi in Hong Kong with his wife, two son of 12 and nine, and two daughters aged 14 and six. On arrival in Tripoli, he and his wife were handcuffed and hooded, and his legs were tied with pieces of wire. The whole family was thrown into prison.

Saadi women and children were released after two months of being subjected to what he describes as "psychological torture". He was detained for six years and says he was repeatedly beaten, given electric shocks and death threats.

According to his lawsuit against the British government, was asked about the Libyans living in the UK, the photographs show a series of them, and on one occasion, two police officers interviewed by British intelligence while one of his interrogators Libyans were present.

Saadi, 45, who is also known as Abu Munthir, was a prominent member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an organization founded by veterans of the Mujahideen of Libya in the war against Soviet Union in Afghanistan to overthrow Gaddafi.

lived in North London for several years in the 90s, after seeking asylum in the United Kingdom, and several of his colleagues suspect that it was given to Gaddafi as a "gift "in rather than an individual who threatened the British national security. The secret CIA fax, it is clear that the plan was not only Saadi, but also his family. He asked me if I knew what had become woman, Saadi and his children after the operation was performed, a spokesman for the British Foreign Office said: "The government of the old policy not comment on intelligence matters. "

However, serious abuse of prisoners in the jails of Gaddafi had been well documented by human rights groups, and is mentioned, even in their own human rights of the Foreign Office this year's report.

lawyers Leigh Day law firm and legal charity Reprieve has identified several other documents in the cache of Tripoli this case, the support of Saadi, one of which suggests MI6 field preparation for its return on five months before it happened. In a fax sent in November 2003, an MI6 officer tells a Koussa employee of the agency is in talks with the Chinese intelligence services "the target of Islamic extremists in China."

• Cori Crider
• , Legal Director of Reprieve to say.? "The British security services have escaped that Sami al-Saadi is the illegal kidnapping was" ministerial approval "So, who signed the order of the torture that was Jack Straw? The Metropolitan Police should immediately begin a criminal investigation focusing on the highest levels of British government. The British public, not to speak Sami, his wife and his family are entitled to know. "
• An official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on behalf of departments named in the action, it would be inappropriate to comment at this stage. He will not comment on the allegations behind the action, other than to say that the matter was referred to Sir Peter Gibson, the retired judge who is due to head an investigation into UK involvement in renditions and torture of. 9 / 11

Saadi is not the only dissident Libyans was found in a prison of Qaddafi as a result of the actions of MI6.

Abdul Hakim

Belhaj, another member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, was captured by the CIA and delivered to the Libyans after a start of the British part of his fate. Nine days later, an MI6 officer named Mark - believes that Sir Mark Allen, former head of against-terrorism -. Koussa wrote a message in reference to Belhaj by his alias, Abu Abd Allah Sadiq

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