Musa Kusa, the Libyan foreign minister who is being guarded by MI6 after fleeing Tripoli for Britain, is named in court documents as the man who oversaw the supply of Semtex to the IRA. The explosive was used in bombings on the British mainland that killed eight people, including a boy aged three, in London and Warrington, Cheshire.
The legal papers say Kusa and five other Libyans “did knowingly and wilfully conspire to commit ... the deliberate and wrongful death” of the eight victims who died in Warrington and London’s Docklands, Bishopsgate, and Baltic Exchange.
They also implicate him in scores of other attacks in Northern Ireland.
Kusa is also alleged to have “specifically approved” the murder of Mohamed Ramadan, a BBC journalist, outside the Regent’s Park mosque in London in 1980.
Last night, MPs and victims groups questioned why Britain was giving sanctuary to an accused murderer and called for his arrest.
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Dominic Raab, a Conservative MP and former Foreign Office lawyer, said: “If any evidence comes to light that Musa Kusa has been responsible for any terrorist offences in relation to Lockerbie or the IRA bombings, he must be arrested and prosecuted in the British courts.”
Kusa has been one of the most influential members of Gadaffi’s circle over the past 30 years, He fled Tripoli last week and flew into Farnborough airport by private jet last Wednesday.