Abdullah al-Senussi Abdullah al-Senussi, former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence chief, has been arrested at Nouakchott airport in Mauritania, according to officials in the West African country. Mauritanian authorities

said in a statement on Saturday that Senussi had been arrested after arriving at the airport from Casablanca on a forged Malian passport.
Senussi was the right-hand man and brother-in-law of Gaddafi, who was deposed from power and eventually killed in a nine-month uprising last year.
Brother of Gaddafi's widow Safiya Furkash, he was considered to be the one who led the crackdown on protesters during the Libyan revolution.
Senussi's tasks under the former regime included heading external security and military intelligence and what was known in Liyba as the “battalion” responsible for protecting Gaddafi.
Most Libyans believe he is responsible for the Abu Salim prison massacre in Tripoli in June, 1996, where 1200 prisoners were killed. The prisoners, most of them political detainees, were protesting the worsening conditions inside the prison.
Libyan human rights organisiations have also accused Senussi of being behind the disappearance of a number of political opponents when he was responsible for interior security in the early eighties.
The French judiciary sentenced him to life imprisonment for his involvement in the explosion of the a French airplane in 1989 where 170 passenger were killed, and an international security warrant was issued against him.
A secret US cable disclosed by Wikileaks touched upon Senussi being the shadow of Gaddafi, and the supervisor of all his personal arrangements including medical checks.  The message sent from the US embassy in Tripoli to the US State Department said that he suffered from severe paranoia.
The International Criminal Court indicted Senussi along with Gaddafi and his son Seif al-Islam, now in custody, in June last year for war crimes.
Senussi has been reported captured in Libya before, but the reports were found to be untrue.