Revealed: Gaddafi envoy in Britain for secret talks

[pinboy3niner]

Source: The Guardian

Revealed: Gaddafi envoy in Britain for secret talks


Exclusive: Contact with senior aide believed to be one of a number between Libyan officials and west amid signs regime may be looking for exit strategy


Peter Beaumont, Nicholas Watt and Severin Carrell guardian.co.uk, Thursday 31 March 2011 21.30 BST



Colonel Gaddafi's regime has sent one of its most trusted envoys to London for confidential talks with British officials, the Guardian can reveal.

Mohammed Ismail, a senior aide to Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam, visited London in recent days, British government sources familiar with the meeting have confirmed.

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"There has been increasing evidence recently that the sons want a way out," said a western diplomatic source.

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Mutassim, presently the country's national security adviser, would become president of an interim national unity government which would include the country's opposition.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/31/gaddaf-envoy-britain-secret-talks-exit-strategy

[louis-t]

1. I'm keeping my opinion to myself to avoid jinxing.

[Iterate]

2. I've heard that Scheveningen prison can be unpleasant.

Not cruel mind you, just cold and dark, especially in those damp, chilly winters at such a northern latitude.

[bongbong]

3. The talks

There was a leak that the talks will touch upon only three subjects; these are the only things the Western Powers want from Qaddafi.

1) oil
2) petroleum products
3) wells & drilling equipment

[Fool Count]

4. That sounds fine, but since when did Guardian start calling the UK government

"the regime"?

[Iliyah]

5. You damn straight

once you've had the United States life style, you don't want to go back. His baby son lovvvvvveeeeeesssssss him some Cali. Now will he ever be allowed to come back here, No I hope not. That family has murdered a lot of people.

[Turborama]

6. Revealed: Gaddafi envoy in Britain for secret talks ("regime may be looking for an exit strategy")

Source: The Guardian

Exclusive: Contact with senior aide believed to be one of a number between Libyan officials and west amid signs regime may be looking for exit strategy

Peter Beaumont , Nicholas Watt and Severin Carrell | Friday April 1 2011

Colonel Gaddafi's regime has sent one of its most trusted envoys to London for confidential talks with British officials, the Guardian can reveal.

Mohammed Ismail, a senior aide to Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam, visited London in recent days, British government sources familiar with the meeting have confirmed. The contacts with Ismail are believed to have been one of a number between Libyan officials and the west in the last fortnight, amid signs that the regime may be looking for an exit strategy.

Disclosure of Ismail's visit comes in the immediate aftermath of the defection to Britain of Moussa Koussa, Libya's foreign minister and its former external intelligence head, who has been Britain's main conduit to the Gaddafi regime since the early 1990s.

A team led by the British ambassador to Libya, Richard Northern, and MI6 officers embarked on a lengthy debriefing of Koussa at a safe house after he flew into Farnborough airport on Wednesday night from Tunisia. Government sources said the questioning would take time because Koussa's state of mind was "delicate" after he left his family in Libya.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/31/gaddaf-envoy-britain-secret-talks-exit-strategy

[Iliyah]

7. Please

Gaddafi and crew leave Libya and let the people try and create, hopefully, a democracy. I believe "when" Gaddafi lets go, this will be the second middle east country to.....hopefully become a democracy. And if this happenes, I feel the other countries will slowly follow except for the Saudis and Iran.

[Auntie Bush]

8. It would be such good news if the whole Gadafi family got out of Lybia

and gave democracy a chance. It's going to be along shot though.