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Professional Footballer Leads Pro-Gadaffi Charge in Benghazi

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James M. Dorsey
Feb 21, 2011
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A professional footballer and son of embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi is believed to be leading the Gadaffi family’s brutal efforts to restore control of Benghazi, the country’s second largest city.

Two Libyan fighter pilots defected Monday with their planes to Malta after refusing orders to open fire on protesters in the city demanding an end to …

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