Seif el-Islam, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, dismissed the importance of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country, Moussa Koussa, who defected to Britain and intelligence would have been to provide the U.K. officials.
Seif ridiculisé KUSA as "old" and "ill" and claimed that he could not provide any new details about the bombing in 1988 of a Pan Am airline exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed more than 270 people.
Speaking to the BBC, said Seif that Koussa is likely to "do the funny stories" in exchange for asylum. He also said that the authorities in the United Kingdom and the United States already "all about Lockerbie there is no secret" KUSA may disclose.
"There is no secret anymore", he added. "We have no secret to the world."
Seif has accused the British Government to compel KUSA denounce Gaddafi.
"The British Government said: you have no immunity unless cooperate you,"says. "."He is sick, it is sick and old, so if put you this way - no immunity - of course I come out with funny stories".
KUSA, once one of the closest aides of Gaddafi, has been offered asylum by the British authorities, although the Minister for Foreign Affairs UK William Hague earlier, said that it will be not granted any immunity.
Scottish authorities are supposed to interview KUSA in the coming days to discover what he knows about the Lockerbie tragedy.
Separately, the Government of the United States has lifted financial sanctions against Koussa, in a step which is probably designed to inspire the closest aides of Gaddafi defects.
David s. Cohen, Treasury acting under Secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said KUSA sanctions were dropped because he was no longer part of the Gaddafi regime.
"One of the intended purpose of the sanctions against the Libyan Government officials was to motivate individuals within the regime of Kadhafi to make the right decision and ungrouping of Gaddafi and his Government, said Cohen."
Questions have been raised about ethics to kiss a man like Koussa, who was sometimes referred to as the "torturer-in-chief" Libya and was likely an accomplice of numerous acts of terrorism and other crimes, including murder, during his long career as Chief of intelligence and the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Ironically, there are three decades Koussa was expelled from Britain to tell a reporter that he is for the practice of the Libya of hunting and killing opponents of the regime of Kadhafi.
The Libyan Government is also suspected of supplying weapons to the Irish Republican Army and the murder of a British police woman in 1984 during a protest outside the Embassy of Libya in London.
KUSA is also widely suspected of having ordered the attack that led to the massacre of Lockerbie.
The US FBI officials seek also to KUSA of Lockerbie.
"Any defection is a bet of is which side will win," said Paul r. Pillar, a former official of the Central Intelligence Agency, according to media reports. "I guess he build on the effect of leverage he has with him in the information, even without a formal agreement of immunity." This is a suspension situation. ?
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