{"id":1698,"date":"2011-04-01T09:36:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T17:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2011-04-01T09:36:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T17:36:43","slug":"rebels-regroup-as-top-government-offical-defects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/rebels-regroup-as-top-government-offical-defects\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebels Regroup As Top Government Offical Defects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1699\" title=\"fn\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fn-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fn-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fn-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fn-55x55.jpg 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>After losing ground to government forces in recent days Libyan rebels  are regrouping to launch a counter-attack near the eastern city of  Brega. Meanwhile, a top official from Muammar Gaddafi\u2019s inner-circle  defected to the west.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa arrived in London Wednesday. British  officials said they were hopeful Koussa could offer intelligence on the  regime stressing that he is not being offered immunity. Koussa is  believed to have played a role in the bombing of a Pan Am airliner over  Scotland in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>In another significant development, President Barack Obama authorized  the use of covert operations in Libya, a move that encouraged the  opposition, but left others concerned that the action went beyond the  terms of the U.N. resolution to protect civilians. A Vatican official  reports that airstrikes on Tripoli have resulted in at least 40 civilian  deaths. The rebels report \u201cmassacres\u201d are taking place in Misrata,  which is still under siege by Gaddafi\u2019s troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After losing ground to government forces in recent days Libyan rebels are regrouping to launch a counter-attack near the eastern city of Brega. Meanwhile, a top official from Muammar Gaddafi\u2019s inner-circle defected to the west&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[826,685,934],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","tag-gaddafi","tag-libya","tag-moussa-koussa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}