Libya: US believes Muammar Gaddafi's days numbered
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces have been weakened and his days appear to be numbered, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said.
The Telegraph
10:21PM BST 16 Aug 2011
Panetta made the statements as rebel advances cut Tripoli off from its supply route to Tunisia, shifting momentum in the rebels' favour.
Rebels in the Western Mountains reported significant breakthroughs in the six-month-old conflict, taking the strategic city of Zawiyah on the coast and securing the key crossroads town of Garyan in the desert south of Tripoli.
The Defense Secretary said: "Gaddafi's forces are weakened and this latest defection (Libya's Interior Minister Nasser al-Mabruk Abdullah) is another example of how weak they've gotten.
"I think the sense is that Gaddafi's days are numbered,"
At the same event in Washington, Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, defended the United States' response to the situation in Syria's military assault on protesters seeking to topple the president.
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She said: "It is a growing international chorus of condemnation. The United States has been instrumental in orchestrating that, and we are pushing for stronger sanctions that we hoped will be joined by other countries that have far bigger stakes economically than we do."
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