Obama Sustains Extraordinary Rendition with Kidnap of Former US Agent in Libya

The United-States abduct one of their ex-agents in Libya
Voltaire Network – 10 October, 2013

President Obama gave the order to abduct Abu Anas al-Libi (a.k.a Nazih Abd al-Hamid al-Ruqhay), on October 6th 2013 in Libya. A team of the Delta Force succeeded without making any victims.

Even supposing that al-Libi is a legitimate target for the US, as said by the Secretary of State John Kerry, this kidnapping constitutes a violation of international law and of Libyan sovereignty.

In 1995, the jihadist, having joined Osama Bin Laden in Soudan, had participated in an failed attempt to assassinate the Egyptian president, Hosni Moubarack. He then took refuge in Doha (Qatar).

In 1996, the english secret services (MI5 and MI6) financed an Al-Qaïda cell to assassinate the Libyan leader Mouammar el-Kadhafi [1]. Anas Al-Libi played the intermediary in the transaction and this way received political asylum in the UK. He lived in Manchester until he was charged, in 2000, by the US.

In 2000, he was accused, by the South District Court of New York, of having proceeded in 1993 in photographic reconnoitring that would have enabled, five years later, the attacks on the US embassies of Daar es-Salam and Nairobi, on the 7th of August 1998, killing 12 americans (and incidently 214 other people, in a total of 5 000 non-american injured). When the List of the most wanted suspects by the FBI was created in 2001, a 5 million dollar reward was offered for his capture.

Various sources claim that he was detained in Iran from 2003 to 2012, at which date he returned to Libya. However, on the 6th of June 2007, Amnesty International claimed that he was actually detained in a secret CIA prison [2].

In December 2010, the Libyan representative at the UN indicated that Al-Libi and his family had returned to their country, as part of a negotiated peace treaty by Saif el-Islam Kadhafi, under US surveillance. With other members of Al-Qaïda and under Abdelhakim Belhaj’s authority [3], he participates, starting February 2011 (three months later) in NATO’s operations in Libya, leading to the Jamahiriya’s overthrowing and to Mouammar el-Kadhafi’s lynching. One of al-Libi’s son’s is killed in retaliation by the nationalists in October 2011.

Kidnapped by the US Secretary of Defence in Tripoli (Lybia) on October 6th 2013, Abu Anas al-Libi was, according to the New York Times, transferred aboard USS San Antonio, in the Mediterranean sea, to be interrogated [4] outside of the US penal system’s protection [5]. He could eventually be handed over to the US justice in a few weeks or months.

USS San Antonio is a landing ship, and it’s holds have been transformed into a secret prison by the US Navy. The detainees are interrogated according to a special techniques program by Dr. Martin Seligman [6]. The goal is not to obtain information, but to condition the victims. Officially, president Barack Obama has closed these secret prisons and forbidden torture.

The United-States have not yet claimed the abduction, contrary to international law since Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame’s abduction on April 19th 2011 (which was made public two months later).
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