Terror suspects tortured in Libya with involvement by MI6 and the CIA (from the BBC)

A video from the BBC website documenting the usefulness of the Libyan regime to the CIA and MI6 in interrogating terror suspects. A grim reminder that in a fallen world the authorities are less than perfect.

The commander of anti-government forces in Tripoli has told the BBC he wants an apology from Britain and America for the way he was transferred to a prison in Libya in 2004.

Abdulhakim Belhaj, who was then a terror suspect, says he was tortured after being arrested in Bangkok and taken to the Libyan capital in an operation organised by the CIA and MI6.

Details of his case are included in messages sent to the Gaddafi regime by the two intelligence services.

Jeremy Bowen reports from Tripoli.