Tripoli - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, yesterday, said Muammar Gaddafi has been on the verge of defeat. According to him, repeatedly strikes NATO troops as well as domestic political pressures make that Libyan leader inevitably have to give up power."We have significantly weakened the Gaddafi war machine and we have seen the results, opposition grew stronger,''Rasmussen said in a press conference in the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava, yesterday.
"I believe a strong combination of military pressure and growing political pressure as well as support for the opposition in the end will make the regime fell.''
Speculation about further weakening the position of sticking Gaddafi made following the news of the defection of a number of family members and people close to Gaddafi, including Gaddafi's wife, Safia, her daughter, Aisha, and former prime minister who now runs the state oil company, Shokri Ghanem.
Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister, Khaled Kaim, on Wednesday evening local time denied the rumors. He said, Ghanem is currently in Vienna for business and will be back soon.
Meanwhile, Gaddafi troops yesterday stormed the opposition base in the mountains Nafusa located in Tunisia-Libya border. On the same day the opposition fighters tried to retake the southeast and eastern areas controlled by the City Zintan Gaddafi loyalists.
In Tripoli, Gaddafi staged hundreds of loyalists to give support to the government. Action was apparently deliberately held to reassure residents that the regime of Gaddafi's Libya is still quite strong after three months of opposition resistance.
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