In the end, Musa Kusa had nowhere else to go.
Moammar Gaddafi's hit man emeritas, who plotted assassinations and airline bombings as well as helped Washington pursue al-Qaeda terrorists, could not defect to the opposition like other top Libyan officials.
He had “too much blood on his hands,” a spokesman for a U.S.-based Libyan human rights group told me earlier this month.
“He will not be part of any democratic government in the future, that’s a sure thing,” said Omar Khattaly, spokesman for the Libyan Working Group, which has offices in Atlanta, the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Kusa was Gaddafi’s chief of intelligence from 1994 to 2009, when he was appointed foreign minister. But long before then Libyan exiles had dubbed him “the envoy of death” for sending hit men around the globe to eliminate opposition figures.
Kusa arrived in England Wednesday night, according to news agencies, citing the British foreign office.
"We can confirm that [Musa Kusa] arrived at Farnborough Airport on 30 March from Tunisia. He travelled here under his own free will. He has told us he is resigning his post,” a Foreign Office spokesman said in a statement to Reuters.
“[Kusa] is one of the most senior figures in Gaddafi’s government and his role was to represent the regime internationally -- something that he is no longer willing to do,” the spokesman said.
Moammar Gaddafi's hit man emeritas, who plotted assassinations and airline bombings as well as helped Washington pursue al-Qaeda terrorists, could not defect to the opposition like other top Libyan officials.
He had “too much blood on his hands,” a spokesman for a U.S.-based Libyan human rights group told me earlier this month.
“He will not be part of any democratic government in the future, that’s a sure thing,” said Omar Khattaly, spokesman for the Libyan Working Group, which has offices in Atlanta, the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Kusa was Gaddafi’s chief of intelligence from 1994 to 2009, when he was appointed foreign minister. But long before then Libyan exiles had dubbed him “the envoy of death” for sending hit men around the globe to eliminate opposition figures.
Kusa arrived in England Wednesday night, according to news agencies, citing the British foreign office.
"We can confirm that [Musa Kusa] arrived at Farnborough Airport on 30 March from Tunisia. He travelled here under his own free will. He has told us he is resigning his post,” a Foreign Office spokesman said in a statement to Reuters.
“[Kusa] is one of the most senior figures in Gaddafi’s government and his role was to represent the regime internationally -- something that he is no longer willing to do,” the spokesman said.
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Kusa was Gaddafi’s chief of intelligence from 1994 to 2009, when he was appointed foreign minister. But long before then Libyan exiles had dubbed him “the envoy of death” for sending hit men around the globe to eliminate opposition figures.
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