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While fierce fighting still on-going at Libya, defection of Gadaffi's army members increased.
Eight high ranking Libyan army officers appeared on Rome saying they were part of a group of as many as 120 military officials and soldiers who had defected from Muammar Gaddafi's side in recent days.
Eight officers (Five Generals, Two Colonels, and Major) spoke at a hastily-called news conference organized by the Italian government, which is one of the countries that recognized the Libyan National Transitional Council as the representative of the Libyan people.
Libyan U.N. ambassador Abdurrahman Shalgam, who has also defected from Gaddafi, said all 120 military personnel were outside Libya now but did not say where they were. An Arabic News Network said that 120 Libyan officers had arrived in Rome.
The Libyan ambassador to Rome, yet another defector, said only the eight present at the news conference were in the Italian capital. The defectors said they escaped Libya over its western border into Tunisia via crossings controlled by the rebels.
BY: E.V.J
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