Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Another Gadhafi regime official defects (AP)



FILE - In this Wednesday, March 9, 2011 file photo, Shukri Ghanem, head of the state-run National Oil Corporation, addresses a news conference in Tripoli, Libya. Libya's oil minister defected and fled to Tunisia, a Tunisian security official said Tuesday May 17, 2011, one of the highest profile figures to abandon Moammar Gadhafi's government. Shukri Ghanem, the head of the National Oil Co. and Libya's oil minister, crossed into Tunisia by road on Monday and defected, the Tunisian official said. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)AP - Another high-ranking Libyan official has defected and fled the country amid a widening NATO campaign of bombings as well as leafletting and other psychological warfare to persuade Moammar Gadhafi's troops to stop fighting.




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