Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Gadhafi plane lands in Egypt

A plane carrying an envoy of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi landed in Cairo with a message for the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, ruler in Egypt and the Arab League, official sources confirmed. The plane, a Falcon Airlines 900, from Tripoli, landed at Cairo airport with the head of the Supply and Logistics Authority of Libya, with Maj.

Gen. Abdel Rahman Ben Ali al-Sayyid al-Zawya board. Airport authorities reported that the military was met by a representative of the Libyan embassy in Egypt and that their mission is to deliver a message to Gadhafi the transitional government and the Egyptian head of the Arab League (AL) Amr Moussa, said the chain Al Jazeera.

The Egyptian state newspaper Al Ahram confirmed that Gadhafi's envoy will meet with senior military council leaders of Egypt, but gave no further details about the meeting. The aircraft is one of three private planes taking off Wednesday from the Libyan capital to an unknown destination, one of which crossed the airspace of Greece, as authorities confirmed the European country.

According to her report of the Qatari television station, the plane was spotted in Greece which landed in Egypt, while the other two aircraft had been seen in the airspaces of Switzerland and Italy. The arrival of the emissary of Gadhafi to give Cairo a day after the rebellion gave the Libyan leader within 72 hours to leave the country and at a time when international pressure to impose an air exclusion zone in Libya.

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