Remember the media campaign for regime change in Libya ?The entire western media and every side of politics and especially the liberals were crying crocodile tears because the Libyan people were in immediate danger of being massacred. Only NATO bombing and "regime change for democracy" could save the Libyan people. Of course it was all based on consciously fabricated lies.
Some light was thrown onto the real story last month when the British government agreed to pay Islamist Fatimah Boudchar $650,000 compensation because they helped the CIA render her and her husband to Libya.
You couldn't make this stuff up !
Belhaj case lifts the veil on Britain’s dirty wars for regime change: Part one
By Jean Shaoul
19 June 2018
This is the first of a two-part series.
Last month, the British government reached a deal with Libyan Islamist Abdel Hakim Belhaj and his wife Fatima Boudchar over its involvement in the couple’s kidnapping in 2004. The couple were rendered and then tortured at the behest of former ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
In 2011, in a dramatic shift in foreign policy, Britain, along with the other NATO powers, went on to use Belhaj, his Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and similar jihadi groups in a military campaign, again in the guise of “humanitarian intervention,” to engineer Gaddafi’s overthrow.
Hailed as “revolutionaries” and backed by the NATO powers, these terrorist groups were part of the Western-backed Transitional National Council (TNC) that took power in Libya, capturing, lynching and sodomising Gaddafi. These groups soon fell out, precipitating a civil war that has torn the country apart.
The government agreed to pay $650,000 to Boudchar—although Belhaj refused any compensation—with Prime Minister Theresa May issuing a formal apology. Her carefully worded statement did not admit liability, but was a tacit admission that Britain had colluded with the CIA and the Gaddafi regime in extraordinary rendition and torture.
