Posted on 04/14/2011 10:41:08 AM PDT by keat
Koussa fled Libya to Britain on March 30, seeking refuge after quitting Gaddafi's government, reportedly to show his support for the Libyan rebel uprising and to protest against attacks by Gaddafi's forces on civilians.
He was questioned by Scottish police over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, but has not been under any travel restrictions.
In a statement issued Thursday, Britain's Treasury said Koussa had been deleted from the EU financial sanctions list, removing a freeze on his assets.
"We have done that -- it sends a powerful signal to other potential defectors that, if they are currently on a list, they could be taken off that list if they do things differently," a British government source told Reuters.
The United States lifted sanctions against Koussa on April 4.
This week, the former top aide to Gaddafi left Britain to talk with Libyan opposition figures on the sidelines of an international meeting on Libya in Doha.
The decision to allow him to leave British shores was criticized by politicians and relatives of some of the 270 people killed in the Lockerbie bombing, who accused the government of hypocrisy over its handling of Koussa.
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat government has repeatedly condemned a decision in 2009 by the Scottish authorities -- at a time when the Labor party was in power in Britain -- to free the only man convicted of the bombing.
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi was allowed to return to Tripoli because he was judged to be terminally ill with cancer and to have just months to live. He is still alive.
With the outcome of the Libyan civil war still uncertain, however, Britain is keen to show any potential defectors that they have nothing to fear by deserting Gaddafi's government.
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Meeska Mousa Kousaka teer...mouse cartoon time is near...old mickie mouse club song...which is what this reminds me of. This bozo had something to do with so many deaths and by unfreezing his assets it sends a message that we dont care what you DID for Quadaffi as long as you defect?
Is this OBMAMA policy or just plain nuts? Or both?
The real architects are still hidden by UKUSA acronym agencies.
On September 11, 2001 in the morning, British newspapers published report about security area of the Heathrow airport being broken into 18 hours prior to PANAM 103 going down over Lockerbie.
It shone totally different light on who planted the bomb and where.
Please note the date. Spetember 11, 2001. Several hours after the newspapers were on sale, horrible news came from the States about another terrorist attack. And the burglarizing of Heathrow was soon forgotten.
The innocent victims, passengers of PANAM 103, joined other innocent airline passengers who died because of murky political waters. Passengers of KAL 007, passengers of TWA 800, passsengers of PANAM 103, RIP and may the truth come out one day to avenge you !
Born June 22, 1988 at killed in the Lockarbie bombing at the age of 6 months, Chelsea Marie Woods:
Never got a facebook page
Never got chicken pox
Never sold lemonade
Never got her driver's license
Never got an i-Pod
Never hugged her Dad
Never got kissed by a boy
Never got acne
Never swung from a rope swing
Never watched American Idol
Never opened Christmas presents
Never got stung by a bee
So HE can go to england now,,,, but Mike Savage still can’t.
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