this is interesting.
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10.40am: Some interesting lines from a Reuters round-up of Libya, particularly suggestions that members of Gaddafi's circle are putting out feelers on a ceasefire or safe passage.
Messages seeking some kind of peaceful end to UN-backed military action or a safe exit for members of Gaddafi's entourage have been sent via intermediaries in Austria, Britain and France, said Roger Tamraz, a Middle Eastern businessman with long experience conducting deals with the Libyan regime.
At the UN, envoys said Sudan had quietly granted permission to use its airspace to nations enforcing the no-fly zone. Sudan's UN ambassador, Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman, neither confirmed nor denied that report.
South of the Sahara, local media quoted a cabinet minister as saying Uganda would freeze Libyan assets worth about $375m in line with a UN resolution imposing sanctions on Libya following Gaddafi's violence crackdown.
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this is obviously a swirl of rumors and the downside of the rise of twitter (for example) as an information source is that it's more difficult than ever to sort rumor from fact or rumor from rumor. nonetheless, it is interesting and maybe hopeful---if true---that there are feelers being put out about a way to climb down by people around gadhafi. that would certainly supply a coherent endgame.
it's also interesting that the oau is starting to act in concert with the action against gadhafi's regime. they hadn't been willing to endorse it exactly to this point. i read somewhere that representatives of both gadhafi and the benghazi government will all attend the oau summit this weekend which is gearing itself up as a space for negociations.
things keep moving, which is good. obviously it's too early to say anything about outcomes.