Britain reached a settlement on Wednesday with former head of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group Abdelhakim Belhaj in a case linked to his extradition to the his home country during the rule of late former leader Moammar al-Gaddafi. The BBC reported that he had reached a settlement in the case with the British government, but it did not disclose details of the agreement. Belhaj, who has strong ties with Qatar, had filed a complaint in 2011 demanding that Britain make an official apology to him over what he called his “abduction” by the British MI6 intelligence and his deportation to Libya in 2004. He said that MI6 had helped the United States in his kidnapping in Thailand and his return to Libya where he was tortured. He revealed that he was kidnapped in Bangkok with his pregnant wife while he was trying to travel to London to seek asylum. Belhaj demanded an official apology and a compensation of 1 pound. A Libyan politician in Tripoli told Asharq Al-Awsat: “Qatar played a major role in Belhaj’s life and it supplied him with funds. It had banked a lot on him.” “He left Gaddafi’s jail in 2009 with nothing. He now owns an airline and money and can travel freely,” he noted. “Belhaj appeared on the scene after the eruption of the February 17 revolution. The Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera television presented him as Libya’s savior, but he played no role in the revolt or in the country’s political life,” he continued. Belhaj is Qatar’s protege, whom it sought to employ on the ground, but these efforts failed after he was defeated in elections, said the Libyan official. In January, a British court granted him the right to file charges against former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw over his alleged role in his abduction. Straw has denied any wrongdoing. Belhaj was born in 1966 in the Souq al-Jomaa area in Tripoli. He studied engineering at the Al-Fateh University and was jailed for six years under Gaddafi’s rule. He founded the Watan Party, but failed to win any seats during elections. In a separate development, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, demanded on Wednesday that Gaddafi’s son, Seif al-Islam, stand trial before the International Criminal Court. During a Security Council session on Libya, she also demanded the arrest of Libyan military commander Mahmoud al-Warfali and the need to bring him to justice over alleged extrajudicial killings.