Libya Oil Minister to Join Rebels

Libya Oil Minister to Join Rebels: "
Libyan Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem announced Wednesday in Italy that he had resigned and left Libya to join the uprising against Col. Moammar Gadhafi 'to fight for a democratic country.'

Shukri Ghanem told reporters in Rome: 'I have left my country and my work to unite myself with the choice of young Libyans to fight for a democratic country.' Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP

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