Libya Says Islamist Militant Hanged Self In Jail (whose 'testimony' used to justified Iraq war)

Source: JAVNO

Libya's state prosecutor said on Thursday the death of a Libyan Islamist whose bogus testimony about al Qaeda was used by the Bush administration to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was suicide.

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Rights groups had urged Libya to conduct a thorough inquiry into the death of Fakhiri, a former prisoner in a secret U.S. system of detention and transfers who was handed over to Libya and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008.

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"The forensic pathologist confirmed the death was the result of suffocation from hanging. Nothing contrasts with the conclusion that the death was suicide," the Libyan prosecutor's office said in a statement in the government-run newspaper al Jamahiriya.

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Fakhiri's case has drawn attention because of his testimony about links between al Qaeda and Iraq after his capture in Pakistan following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Fakhiri made up the story to avoid torture while in the custody of a third country, according to a 2006 U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report.


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I do not for one moment believe that he hanged himself.

last month, and two weeks later hangs himself... :crazy:

"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt. If the game runs sometimes against us at home, we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.

Thomas Jefferson, 1798 (after the passage of the Sedition Act)

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partly responsible of all the deaths as a result of his information.

wow. just wow. Libya, huh? actually I am not surprised considering what's at stake.

I did not think he was in jail, but living freely somewhere under protection from interview.