MI5 Worked Closely With Libyan intelligence After 2004

MI5 'Gave Libyan Spies Details Of Dissidents In Britain' -- The Guardian

Tripoli agents were reportedly greeted at Heathrow and given mobiles and a safe house in Knightsbridge on 2006 mission.

The UK's intelligence services have come under renewed pressure with the emergence of a fresh cache of secret documents that suggest MI5 officers forced Libyans seeking asylum in Britain to co-operate with the regime they had fled.

For the last three months, Scotland Yard detectives have been investigating MI6's alleged involvement in two so-called rendition operations that saw two Libyan dissidents kidnapped along with their families and flown to one of Muammar Gaddafi's prisons in 2004.

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My Comment: What was the former British Labor government thinking? What was exactly the quid pro quo for this cooperation. Why is this info coming out now?

A former aide to British PM Tony Blair comments on this evolving story.