US Lockerbie bomber investigation

[IAN 2411]

Scottish police and prosecutors are to meet Foreign Office officials to discuss Libyan defector Musa Kusa.
Representatives of the Crown Office and Dumfries and Galloway Police will attend talks in London on Monday as part of the ongoing investigation into the Lockerbie bombing.
They asked to interview Muammar Gaddafi's former intelligence chief and foreign minister about the atrocity earlier this week.
But a Crown Office spokesman said they were unable to comment on the nature of the discussions, as the police investigation is still live.
Kusa arrived in Britain on Wednesday night, claiming he had defected from Libya.
Before becoming foreign minister in 2009, he had been head of Colonel Gaddafi's feared intelligence agency since 1994 and was a senior intelligence agent at the time of the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing in which 270 people were killed.
He is believed to have played a key role in securing the release of the only man convicted over the incident, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
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Yea right, like the man is looking for political asylum in the UK... I am sure that the first thing on his mind will be admitting to being party to the mass murder of 270 people. I have to ask myself if the Scottish Police and prosecutors are on the same planet as the rest of us.

Be well IAN 2411

[js207]

Yea right, like the man is looking for political asylum in the UK... I am sure that the first thing on his mind will be admitting to being party to the mass murder of 270 people. I have to ask myself if the Scottish Police and prosecutors are on the same planet as the rest of us.

He won't want to implicate himself, of course - but if he's got more information or evidence (like "yes, Gaddaffi ordered it himself", "these are the five people who were involved in Malta, and how they did it" - or about any evidence they may have hidden, destroyed or tampered with; I seem to remember there was some material from Malta that "conveniently" went missing). Like any defector, he'll want to be of some value to his new hosts - otherwise he risks just getting "nice of you to visit, shame you didn't have anything to offer - back to Tripoli with you!" If he has any sense, at the very least he'll have grabbed the juicy looking stuff out of the filing cabinet on his way out. Names of sources, safe houses, bank account details, contacts - all stuff our government would give its eye teeth to get, and this guy's probably got at least some of it.