Report: Libyan Terrorist Not Likely to Serve as First Ambassador to U.S.
By Andrew Cochran
Jeff Stein, National Security Editor for "Congressional Quarterly" and veteran CT reporter, wrote yesterday that it appears unlikely that an infamous Libyan terrorist, Musa Kusa, will be named Libya's first ambassador to the U.S., as suggested in an overseas publication two weeks ago. Background on Kusa from the CQ story:
Kusa (also spelled Kussa) was “directly involved” in the airliner bombing, according to a top former CIA official. Court documents and a Sept. 5, 2005, report in the Los Angeles Times also place Kusa as the principle author of a 2004 plot to kill King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who was crown prince at the time. Kusa was also involved in the 1989 sabotage of a French airliner that exploded over Niger and killed everyone aboard, according to former State department Libya expert Henry Schuler.
Kusa's plot to kill then-Crown Prince Abdullah also involved former American Muslim Council (AMC) president Abdurahman Alamoudi, who pled guilty in 2004 to federal criminal charges for his role (see Evan Kohlmann's post on Alamoudi's Al Qaeda connections).