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Judge throws out Libyan rendered by UK spooks & CIA to Gaddafi for torture, because "it might embarrass America"

Abdel Hakim Belhaj was a Libyan dissident who was kidnapped by the CIA and GHCQ and rendered to Gaddafi’s Libya, along with his pregnant wife. He was brutally, savagely tortured and imprisoned for seven years. He’s been trying to get justice in a British court since his release. Today, the court told him he would find no justice, because any trial on his rendition would embarrass the CIA, and that would damage the UK’s national interest. Oh well, at least the judge was “horrified” as he pronounced his verdict.

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