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Summary Former Libyan prime minister Abdessalam Jalloud has fled Tripoli to rebel-held territory.
Former Libyan prime minister Abdessalam Jalloud, who fell out of favour with Muammar Gaddafi in the mid-nineties, has fled Tripoli to rebel-held territory, rebel sources say.He has left Tripoli. He has joined the rebels. For security reasons, we cant disclose his exact location for the moment, rebel military spokesman Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani said.Commander Jalloud has managed to flee Tripoli with his family and arrived in the town of Zintan located in rebel-held territory southwest of the capital, another senior rebel said on condition of anonymity.Jalloud was a member of the hard core of officers who grabbed power with Gaddafi in 1969 and was long considered the regimes second-in-command before being gradually sidelined in the nineties.He was prime minister from 1972 to 1977. Following his dispute with Gaddafi he had retired from politics altogether and lived under virtual house arrest.Jalloud is from the influential Megarha clan and has remained a popular figure in Libya.
