UK pays £2.2m to settle Libyan rendition claim

[Mikal]

The UK government has agreed to pay £2.2m ($3.5m) to a Libyan dissident and his family who say MI6 was involved in their illegal rendition.

Sami al-Saadi and his family were forcibly transferred to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's Libya in 2004.

Their lawyers say the pay-out ends the family's legal action against the UK, in which they were arguing MI6 was instrumental in their kidnap.

The UK still faces a further allegation of rendition from another Libyan.

Mr al-Saadi was a leading Gaddafi opponent and says that he was forced on board a plane in Hong Kong, along with his wife and four children, in a joint UK-US-Libyan operation.

The family were flown to Libya where Mr al-Saadi was subsequently held and tortured.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20715507

Why did the government bother paying 2.2million pounds of the British tax payers money if they are NOT willing to admit they had anything to do with it, BBC News said that MI6 is accused of giving the CIA information which lead to the CIA sticking them on a plane with Gaddafi's men who kidnapped and torchered them, they werent even in the UK in the first place, they were in Hong Kong and the UK had been watching him after it had emerged he was in contact with Osama before the 9/11 attacks.

So the UK government has virtually blown £2,200,000 of the tax payers money and are not willing to admit they had any involvement with it, they should have just told him and his lawyer to get lost, after all what would have they been able to do to the UK? -.-

[ElMartu]

Would it make you feel better if the UK recognized they were involved? Serious question.

[Mikal]

Would it make you feel better if the UK recognized they were involved? Serious question.

Yes, it's good IF the UK did get involved, after all he was supposingly close to Osama, however the fact that they give him 2.2million punds for nothing, and still refuse to say they were involved just annoys me, they blew 2.2mil of the taxpayers money and for what? Sami al-Saadi still refuses to drop the case and says he will still continue to seek punishments despite the fact that the UK already payed him 2.2mil.