Top Libyan defector seeks PR firm in Europe http://euobserver.com/9/32134

Former Libyan foreign minister Moussa Koussa is seeking to hire a European PR firm after defecting to the UK. Bahrain authorities already have lots of friends in the EU and US, while Syria's ruling family scored two recent PR coups.An agent acting for Koussa in recent days approached Lord Bell, the man behind Chime Communications and Bell Pottinger Communications, with an offer of work, Bell told EUobserver from London on Wednesday (6 April).The British authorities have refused to give Koussa legal immunity in return for information on Gaddafi.  The US on Monday unfroze his financial assets to encourage more defections. UK foreign minister William Hague said on Tuesday he will speak with EU contacts about "the merits of removing the [EU] restrictions."Bell was unapologetic about his well-known work for Bahrain despite its recent sectarian killings.

Bell was unapologetic about his well-known work for Bahrain despite its recent sectarian killings.Bahrain's ruling Sunni Muslim clan, according to human rights groups, last month gunned down 23 Shia protesters and is continuing to arrest opposition activists. Bell Pottinger Communications has an office in Manama and a contract with the Bahrain Economic Development Board. In 2010 it also helped US firm Qorvis Communications land a deal with the Bahraini government for "public relations advice and consultation in the United States.""Bahrain has made more reforms toward democracy than any other country in the Middle East. Did you know they have a parliament, and women in parliament? That their ambassador in the US is a Jew?" Bell said. 

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With France at the forefront of EU intervention in the region, Bahrain also has friends in high places in Paris.Bahrain's head of intelligence, Khalifa bin Abdullah Al-Khalifa, on 14 July 2009 attended a garden party at the Elysee Palace together with Alain Bauer - the head of the French PR firm AB Associates, a top-level advisor on criminology to the French government and a former grand master of the masonic lodge, the Grand Orient de France.