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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
FEBRUARY 20
Dr. Ali Errishi, minister of immigration and expatriates, resigns and says that Gaddafi should step down.
Major General Suleiman Mahmoud defects.
Hussein Sadiq al Musrati, a “senior diplomat in China,” steps down in an on-air interview with Al Jazeera and “call[s] on all diplomatic staff to resign.”
Unidentified members of an army unit known as the “Thunderbolt squad” defect and say they have engaged in combat with Gaddafi’s elite guards.
FEBRUARY 21
Justice Minister Mustafa Mohamed Abud Al Jalil resigns.
Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Ibrahim O. Dabbashi leads twelve other members of Libya’s UN mission in New York in renouncing Gaddafi.
Ambassador to India Ali al-Essawi resigns.
Abdel Moneim al-Huny, permanent representative to the Arab League, resigns.
Two fighter jet pilots, one later identified as Col. Ali Faraj Alrabti, fly across the border into Malta, apparently after having been ordered to fire on protesters.
Libya’s ambassador to Belgium (name unclear) resigns on Al Jazeera.
Saleh Ali Al Majbari and Jumaa Farris, counselors at the Libyan embassy in the United States, denounce Gaddafi and resign.
In Boston, Ali Richi, minister for immigration, denies he has resigned yet, but calls for all Libyan ambassadors to continue their work independently of the regime.
Unidentified members of the Libyan army are reported to be fighting forces loyal to Gaddafi.
Central Bank Governor Farhat Bengdara flies to Turkey, where he later announces his defection.
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