Splits Emerge Within Gaddafi Regime Over Alliance With Islamic Fundamentalists -- The Telegraph
Splits are emerging within the Libyan regime after senior members of the government distanced themselves from Gaddafi family plans to forge a settlement to end the civil war.
Col Muammar Gaddafi’s heir apparent, Saif al-Islam has declared the regime was prepared to embrace Islamic fundamentalists in an alliance to end the fighting.
Saif al-Islam told the New York Times last week that he was talking with an Islamic leader in the opposition-held east to seal an alliance against Libyan liberals. But the comments appeared to have troubled the ranks of regime’s leadership.
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My Comment: I have doubts that Gaddafi's regime is splintering .... they are trying to survive. But forming an alliance with Islamic fundamentalists .... if the story is true, it tells me that they are more desperate than what they are revealing.