Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Canadian held in Libya as US oil spy suspect...

An Irish Canadian man is being held in Libya for security reasons. Douglas Oriali is suspected of industrial espionage on behalf of the United States.

Local newspaper, Oea, reported that Oriali, a Canadian with Australian and Irish citizenship, is suspected of working with the United States intelligence. The newspaper said that the officials suspected he is there "to gather information aiming to ensure the failure of a drilling project off the Libyan coast by Britain's BP." More...

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