There must be things going on which are being kept under wraps - his sudden arrival looks very odd. I haven't heard as to where his close family is (if he's got one) as only he has been mentioned, and what would happen to them if they were left behind in Libya?

As the Foreign Minister he would have a lot of information potentially useful to NATO, but would this be reliable?

It's said that he hasn't been given UK immunity against prosecution.

Rudolf Hess was initially Hitler's deputy at the start of WW2. Then in May 1941 he flew to the UK with the idea of making a peace treaty between the UK and Germany. Instead he was arrested and spent the rest of his life in prison, Comparisons could be drawn between Kusa and Hess.

looks like hes been  keeping   our lot informed of  the goings on within  gaddafi's camp, he's probably been  quite useful  to the coalition forces , i would think,  so he's  wangled himself safe passage out of libya.

The trouble with me is I tend to think "Once a spy- always a spy."

I am not normally a doubting person, - questioning rather than doubting.  But there is something about the business of spying that causes me to find it difficult to be entirely trusting towards a spy.

That's a man who's lived.

The ex Brit ambassador was, I think, inferring/implying (whichever TF it is) that this was our guy in Tripoli anyway.

What worries me, is that they are going down this route of Libya being responsible for the Lockerbie bombing. My carefully argued dissertation for my second degree came up with a different set of culprits. Do you think that they may degown me, and stamp all over my mortar board?