AFP
March 11, 2011
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The momentum in the Libyan conflict is shifting in favor of Moamer Kadhafi whose forces are “robustly equipped” with Russian weapons and likely to defeat the rebels, US officials said Thursday.
“Initially the momentum was with the other side,” Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told US senators.
“That has started to shift. Whether or not it has fully moved to Kadhafi’s side at this time is not clear. We have now reached a state of equilibrium. The initiative may be actually be on the regime side.”
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