Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Libyan Resistance: Italy presents 5 Libyan generals who have defected!

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Rome, May 30, (AP):

Eight top Libyan army officers, including five generals, who have defected from Muammar Gaddafi's regime appealed to their fellow officers today to join the revolt to hasten the end of Gaddafi's 40-year rule.

Italian Foreign Ministry officials presented the generals, two colonels and a major to reporters in Rome three days after they fled Libya.

One of the officers, Gen. Melud Massoud Halasa, estimated that Gaddafi's military forces are now "only 20 per cent as effective" as what they were before the revolt broke out in mid-February, and that "not more than 10" generals remain loyal to Gaddafi.

Former Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgam, who now backs the anti-Gaddafi rebels, told the news conference that the eight officers are "part of 120 officials who left and abandoned Gaddafi and are now out of Libya."

Full story at,
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/165305/italy-presents-5-libyan-generals.html

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