time running out on the Colonel?

We’ve been saying this almost daily for the past week, but now it sounds like Qaddafi really, really might be close to the end:

“Defection within the Libyan army against Colonel Gaddafi, who assumed power in 1969 after toppling the Libyan monarchy, is on the rise, according to the assessment of Western and Arab diplomats. “The countdown is on and I think that by the end of this week we will be living in a(n) [Arab] world [free of] Gaddafi, Mubarak and Ben Ali,” commented an Arab diplomat who asked for his name to be withheld.”