What Is Behind The Libyan Defections? http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24115

Much has been made of the defection of several Libyan officials to the West. We are told that the Muammar Qaddafi is losing support even within his inner circle, and the defections underscore the success of the NATO mission. The Libyan government's days are numbered, it is averred.The latest defections, by Libyan foreign minister and former intelligence chief Moussa Koussa, and Libyan UN representative Ali Abdessalam Treki, may not have been quite as spontaneous as Western officials would have us to think.

"I don't believe that [Koussa] necessarily decided on his own," observes former CIA officer Emile Nakleh. "I judge that intensive behind-the-scenes contacts must have been occurring between him and Western - people from the West, let's say. I would be appalled, frankly, if our intelligence services and our government had not attempted to contact him and encourage him to leave." (1)And indeed, that was the case, as both U.S. and British intelligence agents were in regular contact with Koussa in the days leading up to his departure from Libya.(2)