The 9/11 Decade: When Human And Civil Rights Left The Building

One of the casualties of the September 11 2001 on New York and Washington was the revocation of human and civil rights by governments that were considered bastions of representative government: The United States, Great Briton, Germany and Japan among many others. They supported renditions of suspected terror suspects to Syria, Egypt and Thailand all with a history of torture. Documents recently uncovered show that the C.I.A and MI6 sent suspected terrorist suspects to Qaddafi's Libya to be tortured including this man.

Abdel Hakim Belhadj was put on a CIA “rendition” flight to Tripoli, where he says he was repeatedly tortured, after British intelligence officers provided information on his movements. Mr Belhadj, who is now a leader of the rebel forces that have ousted Gaddafi, has demanded an apology from Britain for its part in the “illegal” 2004 operation and has suggested he might sue the Government. Jack Straw, the foreign secretary at the time, denied any knowledge of the incident, and tried to shift the blame on to MI6 saying: “No foreign secretary can know all the details of what its intelligence agencies are doing.”