morning summary

I slept early last night, so am just getting caught up. The things that jump out at me about Libya news this morning are as follows:

*the Interior Minister resigned, urged the army to turn against the Colonel, and said it was a matter “of days or hours” before he is defeated

*150 executed soldiers were found in the East, presumably because they refused to fire on unarmed protestors

*Peru became the first nation to break diplomatic relations with Libya over the crackdown

*yesterday the Italian Navy had been monitoring a Libyan ship off the Maltese coast; rumor now has it that it’s a Libyan battleship defecting to Malta after refusing orders to shell Benghazi

*rumors abound that Qaddafi (I prefer this older English spelling, which seems correct to me, and the NY Times now uses it again) will sabotage oil facilities as he’s going down