Why so coy Jack Straw?

The British media is reporting that Abdel Hakim Belhadj is alleging that the then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw allowed his rendition to Libya to happen. Jack Straw is refusing to comment.

Remember that last year Last year Jack Straw denied any knowledge of any such the operation:

'The position of successive foreign secretaries, including me, is that we were opposed to unlawful rendition, opposed to torture or similar methods, and not only did we not agree with it, we were not complicit in it, nor did we turn a blind eye to it.'

More recently Jack Straw admitted that he signed off on the decision to capture Abdel Hakim Belhadj and hand him over to Colonel Gaddafi's Libyan regime. Oddly Jack Straw only remembered this once the Foreign Office had shown Jack Straw his signature authorising them to arrange the abduction in 2004.

Why did Jack Straw sign that document? Did the Labour British government collude in rendition and torture contrary to their vehement denials as recently as last year? What is the truth behind the relationship between senior Labour ministers and the Libyan regime of Colonel Gaddafi?Do any other former Labour ministers have questions to answer in this regard: Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson etc.?