Ex-Libyan foreign minister `a double agent’?

Moussa Koussa reportedly acted as double agent for MI6 and CIA for a decade.

London: Moussa Koussa, the former Libyan foreign minister who deserted to Britain last week, may acted as a double agent for MI6 and the CIA for a decade, a media report said, quoting sources.

Koussa, who was also Libya`s head of Intelligence, met former MI6 head Sir John Scarlett in 2001 in London and had agreed that a British agent could operate in Tripoli and pledged to help track down al Qaeda activity in the region, `The Sunday Express` quoted the sources as saying.

Koussa, a one-time member of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi`s inner circle, had flown to Britain from Tunisia on Wednesday and said he was resigning as the foreign minister.

Kussa, who has been implicated in Lockerbie bombing, was not offered immunity following his unexpected arrival in Britain and is being questioned by the security services, MI5 and Ministry of Defence interrogation teams at a safe house near Guildford, Surrey.

A source said: "It has been an extremely benign form of interrogation so far. His chief concern has been the safety of his family. He was allowed to phone them but lines were down."

In fact, Kussa is suspected of involvement in the the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in December 1988, which killed 270 people.

Libyan agent Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi was the only man convicted over the bombing of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet was en route from London to New York when it was blown out of the sky over the Dumfriesshire town.

Megrahi, who has terminal cancer, was released from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds in August 2009.

PTI

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