The Observer: British intelligence tried al-Qathafi assassination

The British daily The Observer said yesterday that the British foreign intelligence known as MI6 paid large sums of money to a cell that belongs to al-Qaida organization in Libya to assassinate Libya's Leader of the Revolution Colonel Muammar al Qathafi in 1996 and also foiled several attempts made earlier to arrest Osama Bin Laden or to bring him before the court.

The paper added that this information were disclosed by the British Spy David Shayler who was tried in London last week and was sentenced for three months imprisonment under the charge of disclosing activities of the foreign British intelligence.

The paper added that "the allegations have emerged in the book Forbidden Truth , published in America by two French intelligence experts" who reveal that Libya issued the first warrant for the Interpol to arrest Osama Bin Laden in March 1998 and that an advisor for the French President Jacques Chirac, the American and British intelligence agencies tried to hide the reality of this memorandum and underestimated the significance of the threat he constitutes against the West.

The paper indicated that al-Qaida organization, five months after the said warrant of arrest attacked the US two embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.