The Wire

One of Muammar Ghaddafi’s diplomats has flown to Greece to talk about the possibility of a negotiated settlement with opposition forces. But in Cyrenaica, the eastern half of Libya, opposition forces have been making little progress, and they were run out of the key oil town of Brega by Ghaddafi’s forces on the weekend. Opposition fighters have been desperately trying to train themselves up to better take on the experienced troops loyal to the Libyan dicatator. Dr Mansour El Kikhia is an exiled opposition leader who fled the country in 1980, and is currently associate professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Despite the setbacks of the weekend and the drawn out fighting, he remains optimistic that opposition forces will force Ghaddafi to go.