Qaddafi’s spymaster takes a walk

A correspondent in Doha, Qatar, sends in these pictures of Libyan ex-foreign minister and spy chief Musa Kusa taking a stroll near his “villa” in the outskirts of town. During the war, following his dramatic defection from Muammar al-Qaddafi’s regime, Kusa first fled to London before setting up shop at the five-star Four Seasons Doha, ...

By , a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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A correspondent in Doha, Qatar, sends in these pictures of Libyan ex-foreign minister and spy chief Musa Kusa taking a stroll near his "villa" in the outskirts of town. During the war, following his dramatic defection from Muammar al-Qaddafi's regime, Kusa first fled to London before setting up shop at the five-star Four Seasons Doha, where he was often seen enjoying Italian cuisine and smoking in the lobby, I'm told:

A correspondent in Doha, Qatar, sends in these pictures of Libyan ex-foreign minister and spy chief Musa Kusa taking a stroll near his “villa” in the outskirts of town. During the war, following his dramatic defection from Muammar al-Qaddafi’s regime, Kusa first fled to London before setting up shop at the five-star Four Seasons Doha, where he was often seen enjoying Italian cuisine and smoking in the lobby, I’m told:

Funny story: a retired CIA case officer, whose name I won’t share, was coincidentally placed into a room next to Kusa’s, a fact my source discovered when the ex-diplomat at one point was banished from the lobby by either the hotel or his Qatari hosts, and had to resort to pacing the hall outside his room. At one point, Kusa knocked on the former CIA guy’s door and asked for a cigarette; on another occasion he tried to enter the wrong room by mistake. Eventually, the Qataris (and the hotel management) got sick of him and he moved out.

In any case, as you can see, Kusa’s new digs are not quite so luxurious:

Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.

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