2011年9月8日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

UK diplomat meets Belhaj over rendition claim (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 08:59 AM PDT

Libyan rebels' Tripoli military commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj, center, and Misrata field Commander Salahidin Badi, left, Military adviser Mustapha Mohamed, right, pose after an interview with the Associated Press inTripoli, Libya, in this Wednesday Aug. 31, 2011 file photo. Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a former leader of an Islamic militant group that sent fighters to Iraq and Afghanistan, insisted Friday that the new Libya will shun extremism and won't become a breeding ground for terrorism. Belhaj, said he was detained in 2004 in Malaysia and sent to a secret prison in Thailand where he claimed he was tortured by CIA agents. Then he was sent to Libya and jailed for seven years by Moammar Gadhafi's regime. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - Britain says its top diplomat in Libya has met with Abdel-Hakim Belhaj, the military commander in the Libyan capital who alleges MI6 and the CIA had a role in his 2004 rendition.

UK issues findings of Iraqi abuse inquiry (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:33 AM PDT

AP - The brutal death of an Iraqi man held by British soldiers months after the U.S.-led invasion of the country was an "appalling episode of serious gratuitous violence" and partly a result of the U.K.'s failure to properly train troops on interrogation techniques, a report said Thursday.

BoE keeps rates steady, more QE still possible (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:45 AM PDT

Reuters - Britain's central bank left interest rates at a record low 0.5 percent for the 30th straight month on Thursday, leaving open the possibility that it may restart its quantitative easing program should the economy weaken further.

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