George Tyndale: Waterboarding’s too good for the likes of Al-Megrahi and Kusa

Apr 3 2011 by George Tyndale, Sunday Mercury

THE Envoy of Death, Father of Lockerbie, Colonel Gaddafi’s Chief Fingernail Puller.

The sick deeds of torture mastermind Musa Kusa, Libya’s rogue foreign minister, would leave many Nazi war criminals in the shade.

Like a rat leaving a sinking ship, Kusa – one of the outriders of the Libyan leader’s repressive regime – turned his back on his sadistic paymaster last week and fled to the UK.

The defection of the top Gaddafi henchman was initially hailed as a PR coup for the Allied forces, whose fighters are battling from the skies – and quite possibly incognito from the ground – to halt the massacre of innocent civilians.

Kusa, it was claimed, would be able to provide Britain and its partners with an invaluable insight into the thinking of the demented Libyan leader, even though we know he is demented.

You don’t have to be a super spook, or Musa Kusa, to know that a cornered Gaddafi is likely to do the vilest things in his power before he is toppled.

Foreign Secretary William Hague has pledged that Kusa has not been given immunity from arrest and prosecution.

But chucking Kusa in the clink is never going to happen, even though this is what justice demands.

Kusa knows too much.

What he has to say could prove to be deeply embarrassing to the British authorities, casting light on the shady relationships our political masters enjoy with mass murderers and despots.

There is as much chance of him appearing in the dock as there is of Rose West being inundated with Mother’s Day cards and chocolates today.

A Libyan expert has been quoted as saying that Kusa was “loathed and feared by the Libyans” because he “tortured people as though he was having breakfast or a glass of water.”