England and Gaddafi: dangerous liaisons

Documents show that Gadhafi regime opponents received directly from the hands of the CIA and the M-16, in an intense exchange of favors. Read article, direct from Liverpool, England.

Cecilia Toledo the magazine Living Marxism

• The great victory of the people against the Libyan dictator Gaddafi is helping the working class of other countries to know better their own governments. Here in Britain, Tony Blair, Labour Party, which, when he was prime minister from 1997 to 2007, used to make speeches defending democracy and human rights, has been unmasked by a bombshell revelation: her secret relationship with the Libyan dictator Gaddafi Muhame . The bourgeois and imperialist governments maintain relations with dictators, is not new. But that relationship has involved close cooperation to violate the human rights of the Libyan people and massacre the opposition against a government that said anti-imperialist already exceeds all limits.
This week a major British newspaper, The Independent (4 / 9), made ​​startling revelations about the relationship between England and Gaddafi, that these revelations bring down any argument of supporters of Gaddafi within those left currents that try to show it as anti-imperialist. The newspaper said documents found by the Organization of the UN Human Rights found at Moussa Koussi office, then head spy Gaddafi in Tripoli, which prove that England, through the M16 (Secret Service), and the U.S., through the CIA worked in partnership with Gaddafi to suppress opposition to the regime of Libyan dictator.
Among other revelations, the documents show that Britain during the Blair government, helped to capture one of the leaders of the opposition to Gaddafi regime before it is sent back to Libya, where he was brutally tortured.
One hand washes the other
"The involvement in the capture of London by Abdel-Hakim Belhaj, military commander of rebel forces in Tripoli, is revealed in a letter written by an MI6 officer. In it he recalls Koussi that was the intelligence service in England who led the capture of Mr Belhaj when he was the leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, before it is delivered to the Libyan government, "the newspaper said. The "confession of guilt" of Belhaj would have been obtained by means of "progressive interrogation technique." Belhaj then revealed that he had been tortured during interrogation. The M16 officer wrote: "This was the least we could do for you and for Libya to demonstrate the close relationship we have built during recent years."
So close was the relationship between the two governments that several European intelligence service MI6 used to also capture your own Libyans suspected of 'terrorism'. The Swedish secret service, Italian and German told with the help of the English agency and its link to Tripoli for these actions. A clue to the fraternal relationship between British intelligence and its partners Libyans are the letters between London and Tripoli, all headed by the phrases "Greetings from MI6" and "Greetings from SIS."
Although the documents data reveal the time that Tony Blair was in government, there is evidence that there are also relations between England and some members of the new Libyan government, the Transitional National Council (TNC).
The documents also reveal that the British security agencies gave details about the life of Qaddafi's opponents in exile, including phone numbers. Among the "spied" Kamoka Ismail was released by British courts in 2004 because it was not considered a threat to national security of England.
Gaddafi anti-imperialist?
Here in England many fighters and other leftist groups claiming to be "Marxist" unleashed a veritable flood of criticism of the Libyan people for bringing down "with the help of imperialism," "anti-imperialist" Gaddafi. Chorus with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, saying that Gaddafi wants to overthrow imperialism to seize control of oil and Libya, and therefore would be to defend it against this aggression.
However, these documents now disclosed show the kind of "anti-imperialism" that Gadaffi argued, was an anti-imperialism of speech and a pro-imperialist politics. The close collaboration between his regime and the imperialist governments has again been confirmed by the documented revelation that the intelligence services were the imperialist dirty paper, out of Libya, to identify and arrest the spy fighters opposed to Gaddafi, and then gave them back to the dictator for him to torture in its prisons sinister. If any proof was lacking, nothing is missing now.
This is the case to ask if Gaddafi was really anti-imperialist, and understand why this collaboration has been since 2002, when the M16 and the CIA began an active engagement with the Libyan intelligence agents to quell pockets of opposition within the country ?
The facts are the facts
Those who today advocate Gaddafi said he was a victim of imperialist aggression and for this reason, it is the duty of revolutionaries to defend him. However, the facts prove otherwise. There was no imperialist aggression against Gadaffi, because imperialism defended him and had a deal with him together to repress the opposition, as shown by documents found now. The protests that eventually overthrow this dictatorship that lasted 42 years started to get stronger as of February 2011. The arrest of an activist for human rights in Benghazi, the 15th was the last straw that started a wave of protests across the country, setting fire to a population already tired and ready to explode. Gadaffi's violent reaction against the demonstrators, using weapons and troops trained by former England and purchased weapons from the USSR and other countries, including Brazil, as well as chemical weapons, the protests spread, inspired by the revolution in Egypt and Tunisia. What pushed the Libyan people to the revolution was the government, a bloody dictatorship, she closed the door to any opposition movement, which had been delivering oil to imperialism without this situation benefits for the population, submerged in bad conditions life.
The facts are categorical. The imperialist intervention came after the protests had spread and the rebels threatened to occupy the oil wells. Despite all the repression, Gaddafi has failed to control an insurgency that grew more and more, thereby making the imperialist powers have intervened to stop the mass movement and ensure the continuation of capitalism in Libya through a bourgeois government headed by TNC.
Another accusation against the rebels is that they are not honest fighters, revolutionaries who give their lives to overthrow the dictatorship in Libya. Were, in fact, imperial agents infiltrated among the people, armed by the great powers to overthrow Gaddafi and thus open the way for imperialist control of the country. The imperialist intervention in Libya in an attempt to control the uprising of the masses actually gives rise to such an interpretation, because it makes the process highly contradictory.
But this is an easy interpretation because it is mechanical. Imperialism, on many occasions, used this expedient of arming mercenaries to achieve their ends. Libya is also possible that this has occurred, but if we analyze the facts coldly, it is clear that this was not the determining factor. Most rebels do not conform to a regular army, as would be expected if it were prepared by imperialism. Instead of helmets, boots, even with anti-bomb, what you see are people without any head protection, without shoes or slippers on his feet and tattered clothes. Nothing like the soldiers or mercenaries of an imperial army! As for weapons, weapons are usually pulled out of the dictatorship itself, thanks to the rebels managed to break many of the deposits of weapons of Gaddafi to get hold of rifles and machine guns.
However, all these accusations against the rebels do not have any support in reality. If they were agents of imperialism, it would be hard to believe in their ability to contaminate an entire country. Gaddafi If it were a democratic government and not a bloody dictatorship, if it were a government that would guarantee good living conditions for the population, not a corrupt and predatory government, would be hard to believe that some mercenaries incapable of carrying out an insurgency that involved all the people with such force that the army faced a far more equipped and led down that same government.
As for Gaddafi yes, there is irrefutable evidence of his connection with imperialism, their attempts to quell the masses at any cost to stay in power. So they're important documents unearthed by the Organization for Human Rights and published by The Independent, showing the dangerous liaisons between Qaddafi, Britain and the United States to keep the plunder of the Libyan people.
British workers now have a reason not to believe the lies of the Labour Party and should demand an immediate public retraction of the leaders of this party, which must be punished for having collaborated with the arrest, torture and death of many opposition activists Libyans. They also have more reason to continue fighting the Cameron Conservative government, which continues bombing Libya and seeks to impose its policy through the Nature Conservancy and the new government aims to disarm the people's committees of the Libyan people. British workers must now show its full support to the Libyan people's struggle for freedom, the British government demanding the immediate shutdown of the secret services of the M16 and the full opening of its archives.