Wednesday, 23. February 2011
Topic: POLITIK - on February 23, 2011 at 6:39:00 PM CET
More Libyan cities fall to the opposition
Muammar Gaddafi will neither leave Libya nor step down and a bloody fight to the end is likely with protesters intent on driving him out, the Libyan leader's former head of protocol said on Tuesday. Nuri al-Mismari -- who has been at Gaddafi's side for almost 40 years although he left Libya in late 2010 to undergo heart surgery in France -- resigned on Monday from his post as chief of state protocol.
"He will continue. There is nobody stronger than the people, but he will not leave Libya, he will not step down," al-Mismari told Reuters in an interview in a Paris hotel.
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