Looks like all those who can, has changed ship :) Atleast am happy that the power is going back to people. Its a psychological noise to see statues, posters, names of same person everywhere.
In India also some major 'dhuwon' is required. On 2/25/11, uttam borthakur <uttambortha...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2011/02/cias_top_libyan_contact_musa_k.html?hpid=topnews > > > > The Libyan official who was a key CIA contact in the war on terrorism and > the removal of Moammar Gaddafi’s weapons of mass destruction may have no > option now but to go down with the ship. > Foreign Minister Musa Kusa, who plotted assassinations and airline bombings > as well as helped Washington pursue al-Qaeda terrorists, cannot defect to > the opposition like other top Libyan officials, says a spokesman for a > U.S.-based Libyan human rights group, because “he has too much blood on > his hands.†> “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. > “There’s a lot of stuff in Libyan intelligence files that will make him > make him look bad†to the opposition, added Vince Cannistraro, a former > top CIA official who led the agency’s probe of the 1988 bombing of PanAm > 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. > “It’s over for them,†Cannistraro said of Gaddafi and Kusa. “The > opposition is closing in from all six entrances to Tripoli now.†Gaddafi, > he said, is countering with African mercenaries “being flown directly into > the airfield that used to be the American Wheelus Air Base.†> It’s the kind of operation Kusa would be good at. > “What will become of [Kusa] I don’t know,†said Khattaly, whose father > was press secretary at Libya’s Washington embassy from 1971 to 1973 before > resigning over Gaddafi’s policies, “but jumping ship is not safe for > him. He did quite a bit damage over maybe 20 years as head of the > intelligence service.†> Kusa, now about 64, started out as a security specialist at Libya’s > embassies in Europe in the 1970s but quickly earned his grisly moniker. In > 1980, he was expelled as Libya’s envoy in London for publicly backing the > murder of overseas dissidents and threatening to back the outlawed Irish > Republican Army if the United Kingdom didn’t hand them over. > Khattaly also charges Kusa with directing the assassination or kidnapping > (and later execution) of at least five prominent Libyan opposition figures > abroad, including Mansur Kikhia, a former foreign minister and United > Nations ambassador who was abducted from Cairo in 1993 and never seen again. > Kusa was also suspected of masterminding the PanAm 103 bombing, as well as > that of a French airliner over the Sahara in 1989. > Kusa was “absolutely†responsible for those crimes, Khattaly said. > “All fingers point to him.†> Cannistraro served in Libya early in his 27-year CIA career, and he says > Kusa was probably involved in a Gaddafi plot to assassinate him -- for > pinning the blame in the PanAm bombing on Libya -- while he was on a trip to > Egypt in the 1990s. Tipped off by his Egyptian contacts, Cannistraro changed > his plans. > After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Gaddafi offered Washington intelligence > on al-Qaeda’s effort to obtain a nuclear weapon, and it was Kusa who met > with Ben Bonk, deputy chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center, > according to later reports. > In 2003, when Gaddafi offered to get rid of his own weapons of mass > destruction in exchange for the dropping of trade sanctions imposed after > the Lockerbie bombing, Musa Kusa was his point man in clandestine meetings > with top CIA and British officials. > It was just those contacts that may have “scared†Gaddafi, said > Khattaly. > “In my opinion, Gaddafi got worried about his contacts with all these > foreign intelligence services.†> Whatever the reason, the Libyan strongman removed Kusa from the head of > intelligence in 2009 and made him foreign minister. > Now Kusa has no place else to go -- in Libya, anyway, Khattaly says. > Sticking with Gaddafi to the bitter end “is the logical choice for him.†> > > > Uttam Kumar Borthakur > > _______________________________________________ > assam mailing list > assam@assamnet.org > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > -- Sent from my mobile device C 166 LGF Sarvodaya Enclave New Delhi 110017 09910972654 _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
