S.Africa’s Zuma in Tripoli for talks

2 June, 2011 (13:31) | Home Insurance | By: admin

South African President Jacob Zuma flew into Tripoli on Monday to
attempt and broker a peace deal with Muammar Gaddafi, just hrs
following NATO’s secretary-general mentioned the Libyan leader’s
“reign of terror” was coming to an finish, Reuters reported.
Gaddafi met with Zuma in Bab al-Azizia in Tripoli, as outlined by the
Xinhua News Agency. Zuma’s go to is his second since the conflict
began.
NATO warplanes have been raising the pace of their air strikes on
Tripoli, with Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziyah compound inside the center
from the city becoming hit repeatedly.
Britain said Sunday it was to add “bunker-busting” bombs for the
arsenal its warplanes are utilizing over Libya, a weapon it stated
would send a message to Gaddafi that it was time to quit.
“Gaddafi’s reign of terror is coming to an finish. He is increasingly
isolated at residence and abroad. Even those closest to him are
departing, defecting or deserting,” NATO Secretary-General Anders
Fogh Rasmussen told a NATO forum in Varna, Bulgaria.
US Admiral Samuel Locklear, commander of the Joint Operations Command
at Naples, declined to comment on whether NATO would place forces on
the ground, but suggested a little force might be required to help
the rebels when Gaddafi’s rule collapses.
More deepening their involvement, Britain and France have mentioned
they will deploy attack helicopters more than Libya to better seek
out pro-Gaddafi forces. On Sunday, the Al Jazeera television station
broadcast video footage of what it stated were foreign forces,
possibly British, on the ground close to the rebel-held city of
Misrata.
Meanwhile, a group of 120 Libyan army officers defected from
Gaddafi’s army and traveled to Rome, Al Arabiya television reported
on Monday.