By Kevin McCauley
Moussa Koussa, the Libyan foreign minister who defected to the U.K. dealing a major blow to the Government of Col. Gadaffi, is looking for a PR firm, according to a report in EUobserver.com.
A close confidante of Gadaffi for 30 years, Koussa ran Libyan intelligence and is suspected of being the mastermind behind the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie that killed 270 mostly Americans and supply of Semtex to the Irish Republican Army to power bombings in Northern Ireland.
Scottish prosecutors have requested access to Koussa and the International Criminal Court in the Hague wants to question him about the Gadaffi’s regime killing of Libyan civilians.
The Obama administration on April 4 lifted the freeze on Koussa’s assets in a bid to encourage him to provide inside information on Gaddafi. British authorities, who have not granted immunity to Koussa, have asked the EU to lift current restrictions on him.
A Koussa aide approached Bell Pottinger about PR, but Lord Bell turned down the opportunity. BP has handled hot spots such as Sri Lanka, Bahrain and Yemen.
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