Mussa Kussa

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Mussa Kussa (September 2010)

Mussa Kussa ( Arabic موسى كوسا, DMG Mūsā Kūsā ; * 1949 or 1950 in Tripoli ) is a Libyan diplomat and politician .

biography

Kussa initially worked as a security specialist at the embassies of Libya in Europe before he was appointed ambassador to Great Britain in 1980 . However, in June 1980 he was expelled from Great Britain after taking the position of eliminating political opposition members from Libya who were living in Great Britain. He then continued to work as a security specialist at embassies until 1982.

After his return, he first became a member of the Board of Directors of the Revolutionary Committee in 1982, where he dealt with the planning and ordering of political assassinations. In 1984 he moved to the Foreign Security Office (Mathaba) under the direction of Colonel Younes Bilgasim and was there coordinator for the support of liberation movements in Africa . For this activity there is an arrest warrant against him in France because he is believed to be responsible for the attack on UTA flight 772 , which killed 170 people over Niger in 1989 .

He then rose to the position of Deputy Foreign Minister in 1992 and finally became head of the foreign intelligence service in 1994 and thus one of the most influential political figures in Libya until 2009. In October 2001, he met with representatives of the CIA in London to there over the international terrorism to negotiate. In 2003 he headed a delegation to negotiate with the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) , Mohammed el-Baradei , on the renunciation of weapons of mass destruction .

On March 4, 2009, as part of a government reshuffle, he was appointed Foreign Minister to the cabinet of the General Secretary of the General People's Committee , Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi , as the successor to Abdel Rahman Shalgham . The opposition blames Kussa for the persecution and killing of many critics of the regime. His appointment suggested a tougher pace towards the West.

In his function as Foreign Minister, he was also President of the 28th meeting of the Union of the Arab Maghreb in Tripoli in April 2009 , which includes Libya, Algeria , Morocco , Mauritania and Tunisia .

On March 30, 2011, after fleeing to London via Tunisia during the 2011 civil war, he announced his resignation as Foreign Minister. On April 4, 2011, the US Treasury Department lifted existing sanctions against Moussa. Since 2001 he has been negotiating with British and American intelligence agencies, with which he has developed extremely good relationships. In addition to Libya's renunciation of weapons of mass destruction, the subject was the transfer of political prisoners by US secret services to Libya, where they were subjected to torture interrogations . After the insurgents marched into Tripoli, documents confirming this were found in his office.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "You shouldn't have any gods next to me. The not so Muslim empire of Muammar el Gaddafi. The revolutionary leader has dominated society and life in Libya for 32 years, with religious belief playing a secondary role" ( Memento from January 18, 2012 on the Internet Archives )
  2. ↑ LIBYA: End of a fight
  3. ↑ At the table with Mussa Kussa. Negotiations with Libya
  4. ↑ https://e-pflicht.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/download/pdf/130899?originalFilename=true Khalatbari, Babak / Lauterfeld, Marc: "A Libyan fairy tale from 1001 nights. How a" mad dog "turns into a "socially acceptable paper tiger" transformed ", 2004, p. 11
  5. ^ Libyan intelligence chief named FM in reshuffle
  6. ^ Cabinet reshuffle in Libya: secret service agent as foreign minister?
  7. ↑ Amnesty International Libya Coordination Group ( Memento from January 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Getty Images ( Memento from January 2, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  9. ^ ORF: Important confidante of Al-Gaddafi
  10. ↑ BBC citation of a statement from the British Foreign Office , accessed March 30, 2011.
  11. ↑ US Treasury Notes: Lifting Sanctions Against Libya's Former Foreign Minister , accessed April 4, 2011.
  12. ↑ Portia Walker and Kim Sengupta: Moussa Koussa's secret letters betray Britain's Libyan connection. In: The Independent. September 3, 2011, accessed September 3, 2011 .
  13. ↑ SIOBHAN GORMAN, CHARLES LEVINSON, MARGARET COKER: Tripoli Files Show CIA Working With Libya. In: The Wall Street Journal. September 3, 2011, accessed September 3, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Kussa, Mussa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Libyan diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1949 or 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Tripoli