TRIPOLI (AFP) – Pressure is piling on Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi after an apparent defection from his oil minister, a rebuke from Moscow, NATO air strikes on Tripoli and a leading prosecutor sought his arrest. A Tunisian government official told AFP that Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem, a veteran of Kadhafi's regime, had left Libya and was in neighbouring Tunisia. Ghanem, also chairman of Libya's national oil company, crossed the border by car on Saturday and checked into a hotel on the southern tourist island of Djerba, the official said. The hotel said he had left with his family early Tuesday for an unknown destination. If the defection is confirmed, Ghanem would be among the…
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