Above/Libya's UN Mission--Petro-Dollar Pride in Midtown
Toppling Libya's Tyrant--France Weighs In
While sea-saw military battles continue across Libya aimed at toppling longtime dictator Col Muammar Gadaffi, the diplomatic stuggle continues apace both in Arab and European capitals as well as the UN.
Importantly France has recognized the rebels.
Over the past few weeks senior Libyan diplomatic officials have defected from the regime and joined the opposition in places from Cairo, to Geneva, and Lisbon. Key Libyan figures have switched sides to the rebels at the United Nations too.
Libya's huge UN Mission on East 48th Street has seen a spate of defections. The twenty plus story building now flies the flag of the monarchy which was toppled in 1969 by Gadaffi's coup d'etat. This is the flag carried into battle by the rebels. The Green Flag of Gadaffi's quaintly titled Libyan Arab Jamahirah still flies at UN complex however.
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