Gaddafi aide's arrest could shed light on Libyan secrets

Source: The Guardian

Abdullah al-Senussi was considered to be Muammar Gaddafi's most trusted aide, his "right-hand man, the executioner," as Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the international criminal court's prosecutor, has put it.

His arrest in Mauritania, after months on the run, is not only a blow to the remnants of the Gaddafi regime. Senussi, Libya's former intelligence chief, would have been privy to the most sensitive secrets – information that could yet embarrass Britain and other countries.

Senussi, 62, married to a sister of Gaddafi's widow, was among the Libyan leader's ahl al-Khaimah (people of the tent), his closest inner circle.

US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks identified him as a confidant who made "many of (Gaddafi's) medical arrangements" . He was also said to have been a close adviser to Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam.

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