Gaddafi spy chief Koussa 'tortured' Libya prisoners

[Gerald]

Muammar Gaddafi's former spy chief who fled to Britain in March personally tortured political prisoners in Libya, the BBC's Panorama has been told.Moussa Koussa was the slain ex-leader's right-hand man and the key liaison with British intelligence in the aftermath of 9/11 when Libya sought new allies.He has also been accused of involvement in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.The BBC traced Mr Koussa to a luxury hotel in Qatar but he refused to respond to the new allegations.In Libya, Muftah Al Thawadi told the programme that he was personally tortured by Mr Koussa in 1996 in Tripoli's notorious Abu Salim prison."While I was being questioned, Moussa Koussa was electrocuting me in my neck with the electric rod," he said of the interrogation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15415793


Note: 22 October 2011 Last updated at 23:21 GMT

[BossMark]

If hes still in the UK deport him to face the consequence's

[Platapus]

Sure it was not enhanced interrogation?

Remember in order for it to be torture it "must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death."

http://www.texscience.org/reform/torture/

Or does that only apply to our side?

[joegrundman]

we should make sure that we don't charge him for torturing suspects we sent to him to be interrogated (libyan-style) on our behalf. that would be a chutzpah-step too far, although i am sure Joseph Heller would be crying with laughter in his grave if it were to be the case

http://publicintelligence.net/libyan...ion-documents/

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by joegrundman

we should make sure that we don't charge him for torturing suspects we sent to him to be interrogated (libyan-style) on our behalf.

*Shhhhh*

People are not meant to know of that. If they found out some of those AQ members we sent to be interrogated were released and proceeded to overthrow the Libyan government with their AQ friends who knows how the public would react.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by BossMark

If hes still in the UK deport him to face the consequence's

He's currently in a five star hotel in Qatar and there is a Panorama episode scheduled for tonight (IIRC) showing a BBC reporter and camera crew confronting him whilst he's enjoying a snack in said hotel.