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| Lockerbie probe team seek access to Kusa | |
| 2011-04-04 | |
| [Iran Press TV] Foreign Office officials are to sit down for talks with Scottish police and prosecutors to discuss the possibility of an interview with Libyan defector Musa Kusa. The talks scheduled to be held in London with the presence of representatives from the Crown Office and Dumfries and Galloway Police will center on access to Kusa as part of the ongoing probe into the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. Earlier this week, the Crown Office asked for an interview with Libyan dictator Muammar Qadaffy's former intelligence chief and Foreign Minister about the bombing of Pan American flight 103 over the Scottish city of Lockerbie, which killed 270 people. "I can confirm that representatives of the Crown Office and Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary have been in close contact with FCO officials over recent days and will be meeting with them on Monday to discuss the situation concerning Mr Musa Kusa further," a Crown Office front man said. Kusa reportedly arrived in Britain on Wednesday as part of an operation by the MI6 and is now being questioned by MI5 officers. He was Qadaffy's intelligence chief from 1994 to 2009 and a senior intelligence officer when the Lockerbie attacks took place. Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond earlier said they have "every reason" to think Kusa can "shed light on the Lockerbie atrocity and the circumstances that led up to it". Kusa is also believed to have had a key role in securing last year's release of Libyan Abdel Baset al-Meghrahi who was serving a life sentence in a Scottish prison.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 I keep thinking of g(r)omgoru's translation of the Syrian/Palestinian insult word koussa. How that poor man made it up to such a rarefied level with such a handicap is a tribute to some extraordinary ability or talent. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-04-04 22:05 |
| #2 The UK bought this, the UK owns this. Bitches. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-04-04 04:57 |
| #1 they have "every reason" to think Kusa can "shed light on the Lockerbie atrocity So is talking to Kusa better in some way than talking to the guy that actually did it, who if I'm not mistaken, is back in Libya for some reason? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-04-04 02:17 |