Former Gaddafi number two 'defects' to rebels - Africa - Al Jazeera English: Muammar Gaddafi's former right-hand man, Abdel Salam Jalloud, has defected to rebel-held territory in Libya's Western Mountains, a rebel spokesman said.
Jalloud was a member of the junta that staged a 1969 coup bringing Gaddafi to power, and was seen as the North African oil producer state's second in command before falling out of Gaddafi's favour in the 1990s.
"He is definitely here in Zintan. He is under the control of the military council here," Massoud Ali, a local rebel spokesman, told Reuters on Friday.
"Commander Jalloud has managed to flee Tripoli with his family and arrived Friday in the town of Zintan," located in rebel-held territory southwest of the capital, another senior rebel said on condition of anonymity.
Jalloud was prime minister from 1972 to 1977.
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