Leila Fadel, Cairo
August 17, 2011
Gaddafi's days 'are numbered'
As rebels advance towards Tripoli, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta says Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's days are numbered.
A TOP Libyan security official has apparently defected, deepening the isolation for Muammar Gaddafi as a rebel advance threatened to place a stranglehold on Libya's capital, Tripoli.
Colonel Gaddafi, who has kept his grip on power amid a six-month rebel uprising and nightly NATO bombing raids, finds himself at perhaps the most precarious point of his reign of almost 42 years.
Rebel leaders claim to have wrested control of the strategic coastal city of Zawiyah, between Tripoli and the Tunisian border. Even as Gaddafi loyalists fought back in Zawiyah yesterday, the rebels claimed to have captured two nearby towns, putting within their reach the coastal road that has become the capital's most important lifeline.
Muammar Gaddafi has kept his grip on power amid a six-month rebel uprising and nightly NATO bombing raids. Photo: Reuters
Cambridge University Libya expert George Joffe said: ''If that road was cut off, then Tripoli is slowly going to be strangled to death. This may be the beginning of a prolonged fight. It's not yet the killer blow.''
Colonel Gaddafi's core of aides has shown signs of breaking under the pressure, and on Monday one more crack emerged when his deputy security chief, Nasser al-Mabrouk Abdullah, arrived in Cairo with his family, according to officials in Egypt's Interior Ministry. Mr Abdullah's apparent defection is the latest in a series that have eroded Colonel Gaddafi's strength.
The reports from Libya buoyed hopes in the Obama administration, which has recognised the rebel government and repeatedly called for Colonel Gaddafi to leave the country. State Department officials were cheered by Mr Abdullah's apparent defection, though there had been no official contact with the Libyan security official or independent confirmation of his intentions.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said: ''Senior members of [Colonel Gaddafi's] government seem not to want to stand with him in Libya but are voting with their feet.''
The opposition's recent victories came as leaders of the rebel Transitional National Council met Colonel Gaddafi's representatives for talks in Tunisia. It was the latest in a series of such meetings, though US officials sought to play down expectations that a negotiated settlement might be imminent.
The talks were being coordinated by Abdul-Illah Khatib, a former Jordanian foreign minister who was appointed in March by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a special UN envoy to Libya.
WASHINGTON POST
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/gaddafi-isolated-as-libyan-rebels-advance-20110816-1iwa2.html#ixzz1VF8tRMxh
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Ngày tàn của độc tài Gadhafi đã và đang đến .
Sau 42 năm cầm quyền, đã giết nhiều người có lẽ kết cuộc của Gadhafi cũng không khác gì những tên độc tài khác, đều Ô NHỤC như nhau .
Còn nữa, khi quốc dân VN đồng lọat đứng lên, bè lũ súc sinh PHẢN QUỐC CƯỚP NƯỚC DIỆT CHỦNG BÁN NƯỚC ĐỘC tài ĐỘC đảng ĐỘC hại Việt gian cộng sản VN sẽ PHẢI có kết cuộc Ô NHỤC tương tự.
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