More Senior Libyans 'To Defect Within Days'

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Sky News

More senior Libyans are expected to follow the foreign minister in defecting from Colonel Gaddafi "within days", the country's mission to the UN told Sky News.

Read more: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Video-Libyan-Foreign-Minister-Musa-Kusa-Will-Not-Be-Offered-Immunity-Says-William-Hague/Article/201103415963304?f=rss

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On tv news they say these will be those from the east of Libya : not the west of LIbya.

[ProSense]

1. More 'defections from Gaddafi's inner circle'

Source: Al Jazeera

There are unconfirmed reports that more people have left the inner circle of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, following the high level desertion of Moussa Koussa, Libya's foreign minister, who arrived in the UK on Wednesday.

It is understood a group of top officials who had headed to Tunisia for talks have decided to stay there.

Some Arabic newspapers said Mohammad Abu Al Qassiim Al Zawi, the head of Libya's Popular Committee, the country’s equivalent of a parliament, is among the defectors.

Nazanine Moshiri, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Tunis, said that Abu Zayed Dordah, Libya's prime minister from 1990 to 1994, has also been mentioned.





Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/20113312103411544.html

[bhikkhu]

2. According to the BBC:

"The BBC's John Simpson in Tripoli says there is speculation about the whereabouts of a number of other senior ministers, including the prime minister, speaker of parliament, oil minister, intelligence minister and Mr Koussa's deputy as foreign minister.

A government spokesman told a press conference they were all in Libya, but then also said it was possible some had left the country on a mission."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12924807