[This is the headline over a report published today on the BBC News website. It reads in part:]
The most high-profile minister to flee Libya has warned against the risks of civil war and the possibility of his country becoming "a new Somalia".
Speaking publicly for the first time since coming to the UK, Moussa Koussa told the BBC that the unity of Libya was essential to any settlement.
His comments came after rebels rejected an African Union ceasefire proposal.
The AU says Col Muammar Gaddafi has accepted the plan, but on Monday his forces attacked the city of Misrata. (...)
BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera said he was told Mr Koussa was not ready to be interviewed, but would give a prepared statement.
"I ask everybody to avoid taking Libya into civil war," Mr Koussa said. "This would lead to so much blood and Libya would be a new Somalia."
"More than that, we refuse to divide Libya. The unity of Libya is essential to any solution and settlement for Libya."
Libya's Minister for Social Affairs, Ibrahim Zarouk al-Sharif, said he could not comment on Mr Koussa's statement while the former foreign minister was "captured" in a hostile country.
Mr Koussa is a former head of Libyan intelligence and has been accused of being involved in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. (...)
In his statement on Monday he said he had been "devoted" to his work for 30 years under Col Gaddafi, and was confident that it was serving the Libyan people.
However, he said, after recent events "things changed and I couldn't continue".
"I know that what I did to resign will cause me problems, but I'm ready to make that sacrifice for the sake of my country," he said.
He added that the solution in Libya would come from the Libyans themselves, through discussion and democratic dialogue.
The UK and its allies have a responsibility to ease the dialogue so that Libyans can build a democratic country, he said.
The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen said Mr Koussa's decision to speak in Arabic suggested he wanted to send a message back home - to both sides.
[A report from The Press Association news agency can be read here.]
MISSION LOCKERBIE, 2011, doc. nr.1238.rtf. to time only in German language:
ReplyDeleteMehr und mehr zeigt es sich, dass die voreiligen Falsch-Meldungen im Kontext mit ex "Libyan foreign Minister" Moussa Koussa und dem PanAm 103 Attentat, für das UK Crown Office, punktweise Glaubwürdikeit, zu einem echten Problem werden...
Bevor ex Geheimdienst Chef Moussa Koussa nicht von einem "independent legal team" zusammen mit neutralen Vertreter westlicher Medien in United Kingdom über "Lockerbie" befragt werden kann, müssen die Aussagen von "Rebel chairman", Mustafa Abdul Jalil und den diversen Publikationen in den Mainstream-Medien, als vorsätzliche Lügen gewertet werden.
Die realen Tatsachen:
1.) der offizielle Abdelbaset Al Megrahi und Libyen haben nichts zu tun mit der Lockerbie-Tragödie.
2.) Mr Moussa Koussa "is not defected to Great Britain".
3.) Es war eine der Bedingungen für den Besuch in Great Britain, dass Mr Koussa in Tunesien von seinem offiziellen Amt als "Libyan's foreign Minister" zurücktreten musste, weil UK keine "Officials" der Gadhafi Regierung ab 17 March 2011 nach (Resolution UNSCR 1973 (2011)) anerkannte...
4.) Mr Koussa ist als unbescholtener freier Mann, für medizienische Untersuchungen nach UK gekommen, deshalb wurde er auf dem "Official Journal of the European Union No. 288/2011 (Blacklist)", als Person Nr.24 ausgenommen, inkl. der Freigabe seiner Bankkonten.
5.) Mr Koussa setzt sich NACH wie VOR für den Frieden und den Zusammenhalt seines Volkes in seinem Heimatland Libyen ein.
6.) Die Tatsache einer staatlichen Beweisfälschung in der "Lockerbie-Affäre", aus niedrigen Beweggründen, ist selbst ein Justiz-Skandal und ein Presseskandal.
by Edwin Bollier, MEBO Ltd. Telecommunication, Switzerland. Find the truth in the Lockerbie scandal on URL: www.lockerbie.ch