Lord Goldsmith: 'Tony Blair made wrong judgment over Gaddafi' Lord Goldsmith added that he was "very troubled" over allegations by Abdel Hakim Belhadj, a Libyan military commander, that former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw personally permitted his illegal rendition in 2004. Mr Belhadj, 45, was detained while en route to seek asylum in the UK and claims Mr Straw was responsible for him being sent back to Libya to face imprisonment and torture in 2004. Lawyers representing Mr Belhadj announced last week that legal papers had been served on Mr Straw. "I'm very troubled by these allegations," Lord Goldsmith told Sky News. He said he knew nothing about Mr Belhadj's case at the time but added: "We have obviously got to see what comes out. I'm not sure it's right frankly to be starting to bring private law actions against former ministers, I think it's another issue but I think the issue of what was going on with Libya at that time, given what we subsequently know about Gaddafi, that's a fair thing to be looking into and I think we do need to look further into that. This is a serious allegation and it obviously needs to be looked at. Secret documents unearthed in Libya since the regime was toppled suggest that its spies were supplied by MI5 with intelligence, secure mobile phones and a luxurious London safe house while attempting to find and question Libyans who had fled to Britain, it was reported yesterday. The documents allegedly disclose that MI5 betrayed the confidentiality of refugees and told the Libyans that the targets could be threatened with deportation to Libya if they refused to co-operate. They reportedly detail meetings between the British and Libyan services in both Tripoli and London, and visits by Libyan agents to make "approaches" to targets in Britain in 2006. MI5 was concerned that a body to which some of the refugees belonged was linked to al Qaeda, and a threat to UK national security, the papers reportedly claim. Mr Blair met Gaddafi for talks in the desert near Tripoli in 2004, around the same time it was announced that Anglo-Dutch oil firm Shell had signed a deal worth up to £550m for gas exploration rights off the Libyan coast. The meeting came after years of strained relations following the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984. Mr Blair has previously defended his actions, arguing that it was "great" that Libya had given up its chemical and nuclear weapons programme, and sponsoring terrorism.