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“Qaddafi must be asking himself who will be the next to go.”
Mr. Koussa served as head of external intelligence in the 1980s, when Colonel Qaddafi drew American and Western condemnation for attacks like the 1988 bombing of an American passenger plane over Lockerbie, Scotland. The bombing killed 270 people, most of them Americans. In the past, American officials have said they suspect Mr. Koussa of responsibility for arranging the attacks.
Mr. Hague described him on Thursday as “one of the most senior members of the Qaddafi regime,” and said that Britain had been in previously undisclosed contact with Tripoli through Mr. Koussa.
“I have spoken to him several times on the telephone, most recently last Friday,” Mr. Hague said, citing Mr. Koussa’s departure as evidence that the Qaddafi government was “fragmented, under pressure and already crumbling from within.”
