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Uproar in Britain as Mousa Kousa allowed to travel to Doha for Libya conference
Families of victims who perished in the Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988 have strongly condemned the British government for allowing defected Libyan foreign minister Mousa Kousa to travel to Qatar and participate in the Doha conference on the Libya crisis.
While a foreign office spokesman stressed that “Kousa is free to travel in and out of Great Britain,” Lockerbie victim’s families have said that it was “ridiculous” that Britain was turning itself into a “waiting room for the transit of suspected war criminals.”
Conservative MP Robert Halfon - who’s family had abandoned Libya when Ghaddafi took power – stressed that with Kousa, the British government was “repeating the same mistake it made when it freed Lockerbie convict Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi.”
Bryan Flynn, spokesman for the Lockerbie victims’ families said: “Kousa is not the gentle diplomat he portrays himself to be, but one of the masterminds behind the bomb that brought the plane down.”
Mousa Kousa was last week interrogated by senior British and Scottish investigators over the Lockerbie bombing.
