CAIRO: Ahmad Gaddaf al-Dam, a cousin and a close aide to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has resigned from all his official posts and defected to Egypt, Egypt`s state-run news agency MENA reported on Friday A statement from al-Dam`s office is Cairo revealed that al-Dam, who also served as the coordinator of Libya's relations with Egypt and resides in Cairo, quit on Thursday in protest of the violence used against demonstrators and the handling of the Libyan crisis in general, according to MENA. Gaddaf al-Dam's statement called for stopping the bloodbath in Libya in order to preserve the nation's unity. MENA added that al-Dam has requested political asylum from Egypt and, according to Al-Jazeera, a source in his office said he is preparing to send aid caravans to Libya. Following al-Dam, more Libyan diplomats resigned their posts on Friday. Libyan ambassadors to Paris and UNESCO resigned on Friday to condemn “acts of repression in Libya” they said in a statement read out on public radio, adding they “were joining the revolution.” Earlier, Libya's interior and justice ministers, as well as some Libyan ambassadors, resigned and sided with the protesters. BM
