Gaddafi’s former No. 2 defects: Libya rebels
Ulf Laessing and Richard Valdmanis, Reuters:
Muammar Gaddafi’s former right-hand man, Abdel Salam Jalloud, has defected to rebel-held territory in Libya’s Western Mountains, a rebel spokesman said on Friday.
Jalloud was a member of the junta that staged a 1969 coup bringing Gaddafi to power, and was seen as the North African oil producer state’s second in command before falling out of Gaddafi’s favor in the 1990s.
“He is definitely here in Zintan. He is under the control of the military council here,” Massoud Ali, a local rebel spokesman, told Reuters. Rebels showed Reuters a video of a person they identified as Jalloud standing among them earlier in the day.
Just a reminder that Libya is still in rebellion, and we’re still drone bombing it. These things are historically never resolved quickly, and despite the fact that the news on the TV machine doesn’t talk about it much any more, shit is still happening in Libya.