Documents found at the headquarters of the intelligence service of deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi appear to indicate that his regime -- despite its constant anti-American rhetoric -- maintained direct communications with influential figures in the US. Al Jazeera found minutes of a meeting between senior officials of Gaddafi's regime and David Welch, former assistant secretary of state under George Bush. Welch was instrumental in restoring diplomatic relations between the US and Libya in 2008. David Welch now works for the US-based multinational construction group, Bechtel. The documents record that, on 2 August 2011, Welch met with Gaddafi's officials at the Four Seasons Hotel in Cairo, just a few blocks from the US embassy. During that meeting Welch advised Gaddafi's team on how to win the propaganda war, suggesting "confidence-building measures." The documents appear to indicate that an influential US politician advised Gaddafi on how to beat the US and NATO. Welch adviced on how to undermine Libya's rebel movement by linking it to al-Qaeda or other terrorist organisations. The information should be given to the US administration via intelligence agencies "America listens to": Israel, Egypt, Morocco, or Jordan. Another document found at Gaddafi's intelligence headquarters was a summary of a conversation between US congressman Dennis Kucinich, who opposed US policy on Libya, and an intermediary for the Libyan dictator's son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. The document contains a request from the congressman for information he needed to lobby US lawmakers to suspend their support for Libya's revolutionary National Transitional Council (NTC) and to put an end to NATO airstrikes. Kucinich wanted evidence of corruption within the NTC and, like Welch, any possible links between the rebels and al-Qaeda. The document lists information needed to defend Saif al-Islam, who is on the International Criminal Court's most-wanted list. http://aje.me/nSY6FC
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