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primarily! <ref>[https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/20/207145_-analytical-and-intelligence-comments-assassination-of-osama.html Stratfor analytical intelligence, 2011-12-15] </ref>
Ex-MI5 chief's Gaddafi regime rendition fears
Wednesday 7 September 2011 23.48 BST
<nowiki>http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2011/sep/07/mi5-chief-gaddafi-regime-rendition-fears</nowiki>
The head of MI5 at the time British security and intelligence officers
were dealing with the Gaddafi regime made it clear that she had grave
concerns about the secret operations.
The unexpected and provocative intervention in a controversy that is
causing serious embarrassment across Whitehall came from Lady Eliza
Manningham-Buller, MI5 director general between 2002 and 2007.
In a passage added to her second BBC Reith lecture, recorded in Leeds, she
said: "The disclosures last weekend will raise widespread concern that the
judgments made were wrong."
She prefaced her remark by saying that while "no-one could justify what
went on under Gaddafi's regime ... awkward relationships are sometimes
preferable to the alternative dangers of isolation and mutual enmity".
However, her reference to widespread concern about wrong judgments is
likely to be seized on by critics of the way Britain's intelligence
agencies co-operated closely with Gaddafi's regime over the "rendition" of
dissidents and terror suspects after the Libyan dictator agreed to abandon
his chemical and nuclear weapons programme in 2003.
Documents found in the offices of Moussa Koussa, Gaddafi's foreign
minister and former intelligence chief, showed how MI6 helped to render
Abdul Hakim Belhaj, now security commander in Tripoli, to Libya where he
says he was brutally tortured. MI6 was also directly involved in the
rendering of Abu Munthir, another alleged former Libyan dissident and
terror suspect whose current whereabouts are unknown.
Manningham-Buller's intervention - her Reith lecture on the subject of
security is to be broadcast on 13 September - also raises questions about
what she knew of operations led by MI6.
She said she would like to say more but would prefer to wait for the
Gibson inquiry set up by David Cameron to look into allegations of MI6 and
MI5 complicity in torture and the abuse of terror suspects.
"Torture is illegal in our national law and international law. It is wrong
and never justified", she said.
She continued: "It is a sadness and worse that the previous government of
our great ally, the United States, chose to waterboard some detainees. The
argument that life-saving intelligence was thereby obtained, and I accept
that it was, still does not justify it." She went on: "Torture should be
utterly rejected even when it may offer the prospect of saving lives".
Maninngham-Buller said it was a question of ethics and morality, but there
were also practical considerations. Torture may led to short-term gains,
but it also encouraged radicalisation and disenchantment.
She has already said she did not known at the time Khalid Sheikh Mohamed,
the alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks on the US had been
waterboarded more than a hundred times.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/14/1472034_-os-libya-uk-calendar-09-07-ex-mi5-chief-concerned-about.html, 2011-09-08</ref>
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