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Nearly a week after the US-led coalition forces began military operations to enforce the UN Security Council resolution with regard to Libya, there is desperation in the Gaddafi camp, a top American diplomat till recently posted in Libya has said.
“It’s clear that the regime is reaching out to several possible mediators, interlocutors to try to get a message across,” the US Ambassador to Libya, Mr Gene Cretz, told reporters.
“I’m not exactly sure what the message is, but it clearly indicates, I think, at least some kind of desperation,” he said.
“We haven’t really been involved in those kind of discussions up until now,” Mr Cretz added.
His embassy team was evacuated from Libya on February 23 and has been reconstituted in Washington.
“They’re playing an active role in providing information, analysis, and assistance based on their experience,” he said.
“At best, we’re trying to find clarity about a place that, in the best of times, can only be described as opaque,” he said.
The American diplomat said that extending US recognition to the rebel umbrella group — the Transitional National Council — is an option under consideration.
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