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Thu 03 Mar 2011Regime defector calls for air strikes
A HIGH-RANKING Libyan defector has called on foreign forces to disable Muammar Gadafy’s air capability by destroying the country’s main landing strips, but warned against any full-scale intervention.
Nouri El Mismari, who recently resigned from his post as Col Gadafy’s protocol chief after serving the regime at diplomatic and ministerial rank for 35 years, said the Libyan leader and his entourage would fight “until the end” to remain in power.
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