Moussa Koussa

Why would Moussa Koussa choose to defect to Britain? He risks being prosecuted here not only for involvement in the Pan Am/Lockerbie bomb but for his participation in crimes against humanity carried out in Libya. There are plenty of other places he could have fled to where no such risk of a criminal trial would arise. If the government is to be believed, and I can see no reason why the government should lie about this as the lie would soon be found out, no deal has been struck with him. What are his motives? At the moment we are told he is being kept in a safe house where no doubt he is being questioned about all those issues we would all like to know the answers to - what is the state of the Libyan regime, what is the state of the Lybian military both personnel and materiel, who are the regime hardliners, who else might defect, how likely is it Gaddafi will flee into exile and if he does decide to go when would that be likely to happen, are there others who are likely to defect and who and when, who was responsible for the death of PC Fletcher, who was responsible for the sale of arms to the IRA and who were the IRA counterparties the Libyans dealt with and who was responsible for the Pan Am/Lockerbie bomb and carried out the atrocity? There are no doubt many more questions to be asked. Those asking the questions will no doubt first of all want to ensure that Moussa Koussa is genuine and not just a stooge of some kind. Could he for example be an envoy from Gaddafi rather than a defector - here to sort out Gaddafi's departure from Lybia? All good spook stuff about which no doubt books will be written and television plays will be made. The English love nothing better than a good spook story, real or imagined.