Washington: The days of the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi are numbered as he is increasingly getting isolated, the United States said on Thursday. "We feel strongly that the pressure that the international community has brought to bear on Gaddafi and his regime is having an effect," the new State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland told reporters at her first news conference.
Over 50 senior-level diplomatic officials and members of the government have defected, including the minister for foreign affairs, minister for interior, labour, oil, justice; as well as 11 ambassadors, including those to the UN, the United States, France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, Bangladesh, Jordan, Portugal, Somalia, Sweden and India; and Gaddafi's prosecutor general, his chief of protocol, five generals and lots of regime soldiers, she said.
"So the guy is getting increasingly lonely, increasingly isolated. His days are numbered," Nuland said. "We are confident that his days are numbered," she said.
"We are participating in and conducting this NATO operation, which is designed to support Resolution 1973. It not only stopped the killings in Benghazi, it's having a profound military effect; it's allowed time for the rebels to regroup and to improve their military operations," she said.
"I think we see that happening by the day. We've of course provided extensive humanitarian support, moral support, political support and economic support, and we will continue to do so," Nuland said.
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