Fahad Ansari examines the dubious relationship between Libya and Great Britain during the 'war on terror years' and the subsequent criminalisation of anti-Gadaffi dissidents in the UK.

George Bush returned to the public eye with a bang last night, using his newly published memoirs to claim that information the US gained by “waterboarding” terror suspects helped to foil at least two attacks on London.

After returning from Iraq, many serving soldiers decided to speak against their crimes against the ‘evil’ Iraqis they were fighting to bring ‘peace’ in Iraq. Some of them, overcome by guilt, even decided to end their lives.

"How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it." (Henry David Thoreau,1817-1862.)

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban's shadow government, has denounced former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for calling "radical Islam" the "greatest threat" to the world. In a statement dated September 14, 2010, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan also accused the Western nations of diluting and distorting the "principles of Islam" in order to maintain their control of Islamic lands.

An inquiry is to investigate the UK's involvement in rendition flights. It's a pity it'll come too late for the Labour leadership vote

Indeed any risk that does exist, only does so because of the legacy Mr Blair has left the world.