Gaddafi aide's arrest could shed light on Libyan secrets
Abdullah Senussi was considered to be Muammar Gaddafi's most trusted aide, his "right-hand man, the executioner," as the international criminal court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has put it.
Senussi's arrest in Mauritania after months on the run is a blow not only to the remnants of the Gaddafi regime. Libya's former head of military intelligence would have been privy to its most sensitive secrets – information that could yet cause embarrassment to 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 his [Gaddafi's] medical arrangements". He was said to have been a close adviser to Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/18/gaddafi-aide-arrest-libyan-secrets?newsfeed=true
