DUBAI - Eight senior officers of Moammar Gadhafi's military, including four generals, have defected, a rebel leader said May 30.
"Eight senior officers of Gadhafi brigades, including four generals, joined the revolution," said Mahmoud Shammam, head of information for the National Transitional Council, the body which controls rebel-held eastern Libya.
"The eight soldiers are currently in Rome and they will speak to reporters during a news conference in the afternoon [of May 30]," Shammam said by telephone from the Italian capital.
Without offering details, he said the eight defectors passed through Tunisia.
A group of Libyan soldiers, including several senior officers, arrived by sea in Tunisia on May 27, the Tunisian official news agency TAP reported.
According to TAP, 34 people from Libya, including civilians and soldiers, arrived in southern Tunisia aboard two boats.
"Eight senior officers of Gadhafi brigades, including four generals, joined the revolution," said Mahmoud Shammam, head of information for the National Transitional Council, the body which controls rebel-held eastern Libya.
"The eight soldiers are currently in Rome and they will speak to reporters during a news conference in the afternoon [of May 30]," Shammam said by telephone from the Italian capital.
Without offering details, he said the eight defectors passed through Tunisia.
A group of Libyan soldiers, including several senior officers, arrived by sea in Tunisia on May 27, the Tunisian official news agency TAP reported.
According to TAP, 34 people from Libya, including civilians and soldiers, arrived in southern Tunisia aboard two boats.
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