Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is ill and ready to hand over power to Justice Minister Mohammed al-Qamoodi. "You can't throw me out of office! I'm a sick man!"
A statement to that effect came from an anonymous source in that country's armed forces.
Oh, well. If it's an anonymous source somewhere in the Libyan armed forces it must be true...
Gaddafi has also agreed to move to Venezuela together with his family.
Because like clings to like...
Among conditions set forth by the Colonel is an immediate ceasefire and end to the NATO operation.
And after that his hard boyz will cease fire and end operations. Trust him on that.
The Libyan president has apparently begun packing his belongings, since, according to a number of Arab media, two airbuses landed at the Tripoli airport on Wednesday - one carrying the government delegation and another one empty. The latter will presumably take Gaddafi, his family and closest associates to Venezuela.
... where he'll feel perfectly at home. What's more like Tripoli than Caracas?
Details of the Libyan leader's escape from his country were allegedly discussed the day before by Gaddafi's spokespeople and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's envoy on the Tunisian Djerba Island. Chavez himself, by the way, vows to have overcome cancer after undergoing treatment on Cuba and feels great now.
Must have gone to the same doctor as Abdelbaset al-Megrahi...
At the same time, it turned out that Muammar Gaddafi's chief aide Bashir Saleh was sent to meet with British and French diplomats, in order to search for a way "to get Gaddafi and his family out of Libya."
How about the traditional manner: on a plane, in the dead of night, the national treasury among their baggage? Maybe a battalion or two of true loyalists left behind to get killed covering the getaway?
Libya's domestic situation started developing at a higher pace following the beginning of talks between Tripoli and Benghazi that have been under way since Sunday, if we believe Western media reports.
And when has the Western media ever been wrong?
Deciding upon the country's fate are allegedly two emissaries sent by each of the sides - Gaddafi and the Transitional National Council (TNC) recognized as Libya's one and only legitimate government by over 20 countries. At the same time, none of the parties have officially confirmed the fact that negotiations are under way, except for Abdel Ilah Al-Khatib, the special United Nations envoy to Libya, who claimed to have met with representatives of both sides.