kusa

I walked across the river and I cut some of the kusa grass and brought it home with me.

After all, when Kusa was deputy director of the Libyan intelligence service in 1988, Megrahi had been one of his men.

Despite his close ties to Gaddafi, Kusa also has long-held connections to the U. S. , with a Master's degree from Michigan State University.

Megrahi's release was always on the table, he said. Kusa's role in the release is unclear.

Kusa's rehab campaign relied heavily on the West's craving for Libya's oil and cash, but he used other levers as well.

Britsh Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Thursday that his government would not give Kusa immunity from prosecution.

Kusa is more than just a familiar face to Western leaders.

It was Kusa's sharp instincts which in fact led to the drastic change in Libya's political international standing in 2003.

In the first weeks of the Libyan uprising, Kusa still took calls from British Foreign Minister William Hague, among others.

But Kusa has stopped answering the phone, according to the U. S. State Department.

Yet even after those attacks, Kusa strongly defended Gaddafi's actions during a series of press conferences in Tripoli.

In addition, Kusa was a long-standing chief of Libya's intelligence service, before being appointed Foreign Minister in 2009.

A grass called "kusa grass" still grows on the banks of the river.