Gaddafi's entourage sends out secret peace feelers (Reuters via Yahoo)

[pinto]

Gaddafi's entourage sends out secret peace feelers
By Mark Hosenball

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Members of Muammar Gaddafi's entourage are putting out feelers to seek a ceasefire or safe passage from Libya, according to U.S. and European officials and a businessman close to the Libyan leadership.

Messages seeking some kind of peaceful end to U.N.-backed military action or a safe exit for members of Gaddafi's entourage have been sent via intermediaries in Austria, Britain and France, said Roger Tamraz, a Middle Eastern businessman with long experience conducting deals with the Libyan regime.

Tamraz said Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Muammar's eldest son, and Abdullah Senoussi, the Libyan leader's brother-in-law, were the most prominent Gaddafi entourage members involved in seeking ways to end the fighting.

A U.S. national security official, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information, said that U.S. government agencies were aware that Saif al-Islam and Senoussi had been involved in making peace overtures.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110324/wl_nm/us_libya_gaddafi

No clue to the veracity of this report, of course. Info is shifting daily. Thought it was interesting, though. ~ pinto

[Distant Observer]

1. As brutal as the fight-back of the Gaddafi forces has been portrayed, constant efforts for peaceful

resolution has been ongoing in one form or the other.