Raced to hide foreign dealings with Gaddafi

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The western governments and companies actively attempts to acquire documents that prove their dealings with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

According to security sources, the Middle East, has been assigned to teams intelligence and private security companies with the task of bringing or destroy any evidence of dealings may be a source of embarrassment for certain destinations in the past dealt with the Qaddafi regime.

This development comes after the discovery of large quantities of classified documents in government offices after the fall of the Libyan capital Tripoli, the Libyan opposition, however, the armed forces in August / August.

Have shown the documents found in Tripoli, the extent of cooperation and the close link between the United States and Britain on the one hand and between the Gaddafi on the other hand, in the period following the lifting of Libya's name from the list of so-called rogue states.

According to newspaper The Times of London, has said its officials in the private security companies in the Gulf region refused to reveal their identities, that their companies received requests for work to bring certain documents from the headquarters, the Libyan government and the destruction of evidence is not removable if the files are on the computers or the like.

The diplomats and senior Western officials have been evacuated from Libya, directly after the start of Qaddafi's troops trying to crush the rebellion in the month of February last, and in the meantime, the private security companies in the deployment of teams to Libya to secure a safe exit for their customers.
The same security companies, have today been given the task of cleaning the place after the departure of its customers, and cleaning here means removing any signs may cause embarrassment to the governments and Western companies that dealt with the Qaddafi regime. Some of those teams have been sent to the oil fields that were not under the control of forces Gaddafi full distance from the scene, and the task was to clean the offices of Western oil companies.

A member of the group Human Rights Watch, Peter Bouckaert said his team found intelligence documents reveal the deals between the Kadhafi regime and all of Britain, France, Belgium and South Africa and Spain. But he said that the documents are still under legal review, and therefore can not reveal the names of the companies mentioned in it.

Bouckaert and explained that the documents relating to transactions to provide a full Gaddafi monitoring systems, and communication systems for fixed and mobile phones, Internet and communications satellites.

On the other hand, said officials in a Transitional National Assembly Libya that the evidence is transmitted remains a concern and inconvenience to Western backers and companies associated with the working relations with the Qaddafi regime.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, "They all have fears have been published or diversion of many of the documents. I am sure they are trying to blur certain facts."

The Council seeks to extend its control over all the documents can be accessed in the government archives of the former regime, for future use in the prosecution of supporters of Gaddafi's legal.

But the council is under mounting pressure from NATO countries that supported him and provided military support, not to expose any document containing information suspicious.



The comment Bouckaert documents saying it "contains a lot of information embarrassing, and there are a lot of government officials and corporate managers who are concerned deeply published Gsilam dirt on the public. We are concerned to stop us access to computers, many the result of pressure by certain Governments to the Council and its call to give back by preventing access to this information. We fear that there is information that will never see the light. "

Source: Times