Thousands of Libyan government files detailing the Gaddafi regime's financial dealings with British people and companies will be handed over to the UK authorities, Libyan rebels have said.
The files came to light as hundreds of Libyans surged into the embassy. The UK is said to be home to the largest population of Libyans outside the country Photo: Andrew Crowley
By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent
9:30PM BST 09 Aug 2011
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The documents were discovered in the Libyan Embassy in London, which was formally taken over by the rebels on Tuesday amid chaotic scenes of celebration.
Many are now expected to be shown to British intelligence agencies and police.
The Daily Telegraph has seen some of the Gaddafi-era files, which contain details of how the embassy - described as a "spy centre" by its new occupants - made payments to British individuals and companies.
Several of the files appear to relate to payments to private British medical specialists who treated members of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime and their families.
Other files in the Knightsbridge building show how the embassy arranged and paid for trips to Libya for members of the Libyan diaspora and British nationals.
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As hundreds of Libyan exiles swarmed into the building, Guma el-Gamaty, UK co-ordinator for the rebel Transitional National Council, described the handover of the embassy as a "momentous day" for the Libyan people.
The Daily Telegraph has seen a room in the basement of the building containing hundreds of files setting out the old diplomatic mission's financial affairs.
The rebels believe that those documents will reveal details of intelligence operations conducted in the UK by the Gaddafi regime over several decades.
"The embassy has been used as a spy centre for the last 30 or 40 years," said Mr el-Gamaty, promising to disclose any secrets uncovered in the building or the regime's other diplomatic sites in London.
"We will definitely reveal it and hand it over to a future Libyan government," he said.
Mr el-Gamaty said that the files will be examined to see if they contain evidence of collusion with the Gaddafi regime.
"We are not going to hold it against any British national or company who wanted to do genuine business with the Libyan people," he said.
"But if we find that there were British nationals or companies who have been used to work against the Libyan people, we will be glad to pass that information to the British government."
The files came to light as hundreds of Libyans surged into the embassy. The UK is said to be home to the largest population of Libyans outside the country.
Amid cheers of "Free Libya", the green flag of the Gaddafi regime was pulled down.
Copies of the dictator's "Green Book" of political philosophy were torn up, scattered around the embassy and thrown from windows like confetti.
In the basement, a large poster of Col Gaddafi was also torn to shreds.
Many of the Libyans celebrating the handover brought children with them. The youngsters happily swarmed around the five-story building, with several taking turns to sit in the ambassador's chair in the office on the third floor.
Others found their way into a security control room in the basement, playing with the controls of CCTV cameras outside the building before they were shooed out by TNC officials and the room locked.
The TNC says it represents the Libyans fighting to remove Col Gaddafi, and has been recognised by more than 20 countries as the legitimate government of Libya.
In a significant change of policy, Britain formally recognised the TNC last month and said invited the rebels to form an official diplomatic mission in London.
Despite almost five months of Western airstrikes and rebel attacks, Col Gaddafi remains in power in Tripoli, and there are reports that his regime will mount a legal challenge to the TNC's occupation of the London embassy.
William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, insisted that the rebels were entitled to use the Knightsbridge embassy.
He said: "The National Transitional Council is the sole legitimate governmental authority in Libya. It is therefore right that their representatives are now staffing the Libyan Embassy."
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34 comments
49brig
26 minutes agoRecommended by
2 peoplejust sent this to the russian and china embassy,maybe some will read it.
Please please put preasure on to stop this illeagle mission creeping which is being done just to save face,i am ashamed of my own goverment,this is murder not protecting civillions.Now they are bladently just helping the rag tag rebles.This country is tribal and allways will be,they are who will sought things out in the end and we do not want this muslim brotherhood taking over and introducing shiria law,it would be a disaster.please view http://www.youtube.com/watch?f... goverment conned you at the UN into passing that resolution.
juan01
29 minutes agoWill these revelations usurp the UK insurrrection.
juan01
41 minutes agoOh boy oh boy. More 'NOW ' type enquiries.
To the writings of many books.....
juan01
44 minutes agoOh boy.... More NOW type enquiries.
To the writings of many books........
London Eye
Today 12:24 PMRecommended by
1 person I bet there is some interesting stuff regarding Blairs relationship with Gaddafi!! Lets wait and see!!!!!!
cdvision
Today 12:07 PMRecommended by
4 peopleAll very convenient. Now all the dodgy stuff is in the hands of HMG. Thats the last anyone will ever see of this. A deal done with the so-called rebels. We give you an embassy, you give us all our incriminating shit.
ramzilib
Today 12:00 PMRecommended by
1 person
Results of the NATO campaign against
Libya:
Last night I went to my grandmother's house and the sky have been decorated very dark ,
black,(unjust and the voice of planes that are bombing and flying in the skies of Tripoli , was very scary.
When I entered the park I saw a scene surpassed
fantasy: I found many children in the park clapping and
sing under the dreaded
sing planes (neither
The Vito nor the NATO, the
blockade does not affect us God, Libya and Muammar “Obes” only.) I promised to convey
this image ,maybe there are who reads history.?
AntinaziGuy
Today 11:47 AMRecommended by
4 peopleThis is completely illegal under Vienna convention.
UK regime brakes all international and domestic laws it has lost all legitimacy and should leave the country immediately.
You ask why people riot? Why should not they? There is no law anymore. UK regime has no right to demand its citizens to follow its illegal orders.
iamnumber7
Today 11:37 AMRecommended by
10 peopleI've got my b*llsh*t filter on, all I hear from this pathetic Telegraph headline is: David Cameron and William Hague attempting to illegally destroy documentary evidence of the British Government's criminal dealings with Gaddafi before betraying him and chasing him up and down Libya with fighter jets, murdering his family, murdering babies, murdering ordinary women and children, bombing Libya's water, electricity and food supply, obliterating the country's entire civil infrastructure, starving the people so that they may turn on their leader, stealing the country's wealth and giving it to al-qaeda rebels, (some of whom now occupy the Libyan embassy in London), and generally bombing one of the few countries in the world with NO DEBT back to the stone age, all just to shut Gaddafi up so he doesn't expose to the world what he knows about the British government.
Where is the OUTRAGE?!
Think about it people. All that just to kill one man? Makes me think he is in the possession of some highly valuable information about our "leaders".
Taleah Prince
Today 11:37 AMRecommended by
6 peopleAs reported on other news outlets - the NTC has fractured and there is in-fighting amonst the different tribes within the puppet regime. Handing documents over will not amend this schism which is making a mockery of Britain and NATO 'recognising' a group of rebels who are unable to govern. Benghazi is a hive of rioting and sectarian killings which go unreported by British news outlets. NATO killing civilians was not in the original mandate - the resolution is not worth the paper it is written on. It is time to reassess the whole campaign and for the UN to declare a ceasefire of all NATO operations. NATO killing muslim women and children will not enable the peace.
ramzilib
Today 11:35 AMRecommended by
6 people
These
are actions beyond the law , in a
country (UK) said to be keen
on the protection of it. Protector of the law became
the main instigator of the brutal acts of
rogue and a key
supporter of the chaos
and demagoguery. This is a factof today's world?
lepoard
Today 11:14 AMRecommended by
3 people"The embassy has been used as a spy centre for the last 30 or 40 years,"
How come? The embassy only few years old.
elanor3
Today 10:38 AMRecommended by
4 peopleBritain should be deploying what's left of its armed forces against these sick rioters. footage of police in riot gear but with only shields (defence, not offence) and truncheons, are sad and disturbing. If it wasn't so tragic it would be laughable. How do they expect to overcome these thugs, hooigans, and now, it seems, murderers, with just a truncheon?
Brits - ordinary, decent, hard-working, reasonably inteeligent Brits - wake up and get a government that actually cares for you.
________ telegraph1
Today 10:49 AMRecommended by
1 person You have obviously not seen the videos of the "offensive" use of "shields" by paramilitary forces.
telegraph1
Today 10:32 AMRecommended by
16 peopleThe UK government has now established the following:
that a puppet administration can be "announced",
that the stealing of government documents by a third party is legal,
that regime change is legal,
that the murder of unarmed civilians is legal,
the arming of one side in a civil war is legal.
Access to any of a countries embassies around the world can be determined by a third party government.
I wonder if anyone at the UN and in the UK parliament has anything to say about this at all?
Has HM government issued advice to all of it's embassys to shred every incriminating evidence held? Report Recommend
________ FirstAdvisor
19 minutes agoExactly. Thank you for listing all the errors of international affairs being made here as global precedents so clearly. If this is what the UK calls diplomatic relations, no wonder their young people are rioting in their streets. The people who first wrote the Geneva Conventions would spin in their graves if they could see the travesties of brutal barbarism being committed today in the name of peace and humanity.
thumper_the_rabbit
Today 10:24 AMRecommended by
1 person Gosh, is there still a war in Libya?
lukugems
Today 10:05 AMRecommended by
3 peoplemaybe give the files to wikileaks!!!!
FirstAdvisor
Today 09:43 AMRecommended by
15 peopleGiving the confidential documents of an embassy to the host government of a foreign power is a really bad mistake of irresponsible governance, and a terrible precedent for all international affairs in the future. This is a truly dumb move of the rebels, completely and totally incompetent and foolish.
The impression is automatic that the rebels are handing over classified material in exchange for the money in the Libyan government's accounts, just like any gang of spies committing treason for cash. What Western governments will demand now from rebels in other countries in exchange for their help is too awful to imagine.
Extortion is one thing, bribery is something altogether different. At least the CIA tries to keep their paid revolutions secret and covert. This kind of brazenly public buying and selling is just nauseating and repugnant.
telegraph1
Today 10:40 AMRecommended by
5 peopleThe "evidence" appears to have been "found" after a "mob" stormed the London Libyan Embassy.
Will "forensics" find that the "evidence" has been "manufactured" as western governments have done in the past?
vernier
Today 09:33 AMRecommended by
4 peopleThe inevitable removal of Gaddafi is bound to lead
to a power vacuum. For over 40 years there has been
no opposition, no other political parties operating
publicly.
No doubt some seized papers will show that the
Gaddafi regime worked with extreme terrorist groups.
They might even deliver hard evidence of his
role in the Lockerbie disaster.
Make no mistake: Gaddafi is one of the world's most
murderous villains.
The sooner he's gone, the better.
________ Taleah Prince
Today 11:41 AMRecommended by
5 peopleEven at the expense of NATO committing murder of innocent women and children in our name? Since when did the UN resolution mention anything about regime change ? Why all the lies from our fearless leader?
vandiemen
Today 09:19 AMRecommended by
24 peopleMaybe there's enough evidence to get the worthless Blair into court after all.
________ telegraph1
Today 10:41 AMRecommended by
3 peopleThere is no "maybe" with respect to Blair, Bush etc. What is missing is the desire of the world to act?
caretaker
Today 09:18 AMRecommended by
6 peopleNow then, Now then, Now then, where were our soldiers, (undermanned) our policemen, (undermanned) allowing this to happen, what has gone wrong in this country?.
P.S. our politicians OVER MANNED!
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