Libyan Oil Chief Confirms Split With Qaddafi

摘要

Shokri Ghanem, the head of Libya’s Na-tional Oil Corp. (NOC), announced onWednesday that he is defecting from theregime of Muammar Qaddafi. “In the currentsituation, we can no longer work, so I leftmy country and my job to join the Libyanyouth fighting for a democratic state,”Ghanem told a Rome news conference orga-nized by the Libyan ambassador to Italy, whohad himself defected earlier.