London,September 04 :British and US intelligence cooperated closely with Libya, with prisoners being offered to Muammar Gaddafi’s regime under the rendition programme, a report said on Saturday citing files found in Tripoli.
The CIA was among a number of foreign intelligence services that worked with Libya’s agencies, documents found at a Libyan security agency building in Tripoli showed.
Reports of such cooperation have surfaced before, but the documents provide new details on the ties between Western countries and Gaddafi’s regime. Many of those same countries backed the Nato attacks that helped Libya’s rebels force Gaddafi from power.
Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch, which found the documents in a Libyan security agency building, said they indicate American officials were sometimes present during interrogations — something the US has denied.
UK foreign secretary William Hague also refused to be drawn on Saturday on the secret files detailing the closeness of ties between London and Tripoli, saying that they related to the previous government.