Gaddafi's envoy of death Musa Kusa defects to UK in further blow to regime - 31st Mar 2011

Musa Kusa was the brains behind Lockerbie bombing

Colonel Gaddafi’s foreign minister – the brains behind the Lockerbie bombing – defected to Britain last night following pressure from MI6.

In a sign that the Tripoli regime is crumbling, Musa Kusa landed at Farnborough airfield after fleeing the civil war in his homeland.

Mr Kusa’s decision to abandon the tyrant to his fate is a diplomatic coup for David Cameron, who has urged Gaddafi’s henchmen to jump ship.

But his arrival could also present the Government with a headache, since many will find his presence in the UK distasteful.

Libyan exile groups branded Mr Kusa ‘the envoy of death’ for his role in the 1980s directing terrorist atrocities across Europe and organising the murder of exiled opponents of the Gaddafi regime.

In 1980, he was expelled as Libya’s envoy in London for publicly backing the murder of overseas dissidents and threatening to back the Provisional IRA unless they were handed over.

As the former head of his country’s intelligence agency, he is thought to hold key information on the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984.

He was later labelled ‘the father of Lockerbie’ for masterminding the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, Britain’s worst terrorist atrocity. Read More