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The GuardianPressure was mounting for tougher and more effective oversight of Britain's intelligence agencies as the disclosure of secret documents in Tripoli appeared to provoke panic and disarray across Whitehall.
With confidential papers from Libya raising important questions about the conduct of MI5 and MI6, particularly regarding the rendition of prisoners to countries where they faced torture, MPs said the system of scrutiny had to be changed.
A forthcoming inquiry into the UK's involvement in the torture and abuse of detainees, chaired by the retired judge Sir Peter Gibson, said it would investigate the latest allegations, which involve the capture and transfer to Tripoli in 2004 of two Libyan dissidents opposed to the Gaddafi regime. In a Commons statement on Monday, David Cameron welcomed the move to investigate the new "accusations of malpractice" and said ministers from the last government would have to answer for what happened.
Ed Miliband also urged the Gibson inquiry, which has been heavily criticised for lacking teeth, to "get to the bottom of the allegations... no part of the British state may ever be complicit in torture".
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