Military Officials Defect From Gaddafi Regime

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Eight military officials defecting from the Gaddafi regime spoke on Monday at a press conference in Italy. The killing of civilians and violence against women were given as reasons for the defection.

Eight Libyan army officers appeared in Rome on Monday, reportedly part of a much larger group of military officials and soldiers who have defected from Muammar Gaddafi's regime in recent days.

The eight officers - five generals, two colonels and a major - spoke at a news conference organized by the Italian government.

Italy is one of the few countries to recognize the Libyan rebel movement fighting Gaddafi as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people.

[Abdurrahman Shalgam, Libyan U.N. Ambassador]:




"At first, I would like to thank all the friends that are here with me for this occasion, these Libyan generals, who have left Gaddafi's forces to support the resistance of the Libyan people. I think this is a very important step that shows that the days of Gaddafi are truly over."

The military officials said they defected in protest at Gaddafi's actions against his own people, in particular the killing of civilians and violence against women.

[Oun Ali Oun, Defecting Libyan Army General]:
"We, in this occasion, urge our colleagues, other Libyan officials and representatives of the public security sector to follow us in the February 17 revolution, to join their people. The moment of glory is very near. Long live Libya, long live the revolution of February 17!"

Spokesman for the Libyan Transitional National Council, Mahmoud Shammam, said they were waiting for much-needed funds promised by international collaborators.

[Mahmoud Shammam, Libyan Transitional National Council, Spokesman]:
"In compliance with international controls, we have not received any funds due to bureaucratic complications. We are also expecting financing from Kuwait, we are speaking of 180 million dollars, the amount which yesterday was promised to be in our accounts today or tomorrow. We promise the Libyan people and our friends around the world that the money will be used in all transparency."

An analyst at Britain's Quilliam Foundation think tank suggests that the defection has been caused in part by new recruits to Gaddafi's security services.

It is thought that many of the newly appointed senior security officials are relatives of Gaddafi, with their brutal actions causing anger and dismay among the army's officer ranks.

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[willreasonprevail]

best part is that America is going to nuke Italy and blame radical Muslims, they allowed wiki leaks to release information from captured bin laden people who said a European city would be nuked if bin laden was killed, they allowed this and announced his death two weeks later, so they can now go to the last war, you see Americans do not love any country enough to go nuclear, but it has a massive catholic population, the US can blame north korea, russia or china for supply,

[Armen11011101]

The spin doctors can say whatever they want, but at the end of the day these defections are a very bad sign for Qaḏḏāfī and his allies.

[Americaeviloilempire]

@willreasonprevail the perfect pretend target, it is the home of the Vatican, so would be believed as a target, and they set the italian embassy on fire yesterday so that leads in quite nicely, france will get radiated to shit and maybe some will blow over switzerland the home of the United Nations who held a fake vote for a no fly zone and then used it to invade and change governments and bomb houses not targets only attacking civilians, Maybe china will see they are next and help Libya :)

[abarzilai664]

All those Qaddafi supporters on this board trying to digest the bad news that hit them in the morning, here's some more bad news for you western Qaddafi lovers, the Warfallah tribe has called on your hero to step down for the sake of peace and Russia might be leaning in the direction of Q to step down.

[leethal59]

traitors! kill them all!

[AntinaziHippy]

youtube.com/watch?v=wbUFKQWnaT­4

[AntinaziHippy]

Who gives a shit about traitors. When you defect you move to neutral country, but when you move to enemy country you are traitor.

[apezak]

Cowards are affraid to get killed by Liars, so they defect. They will not be missed.

[UNIZEN]

"its fucking iraq all over again.,fucking US foreign policy; those generals are traitors and cowards.,Gaddafi wasnt like by many.,but alot of what he did or didnt do was for the total liberation of the Libyan people...sleep well coward! you no longer have a country to go home too!