rals, who have defected from Muammar al-Qaddafi's regime appealed to their fellow officers Monday to join the revolt to hasten the end of Qaddafi's 40-year rule. Italian Foreign Ministry officials presented the generals, two colonels and a major to reporters in Rome three days after they fled Libya. One of the officers, Gen. Melud Massoud Halasa, estimated that Qaddafi's military forces are now "only 20 percent as effective" as what they were before the revolt broke out in mid-February, and that "not more than 10" generals remain loyal to Qaddafi. Former Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgam, who now backs the anti-Qaddafi rebels, told the news conference that the eight officers are "part of 120 officials who left and abandoned Qaddafi and are now out of Libya." Italy, Libya's former colonial ruler, long had close economic and diplomatic ties with Tripoli, but Rome was among the first Western nations to break with the regime and establish formal relations with the Libyan National Transitional Council, that is representing anti-Qaddafi forces. Gen. On Ali On read an appeal to fellow army officers and top police and security officials "in the name of the martyrs who have fallen in the defense of freedom to have the courage" to abandon the regime. The general, wearing stn Australia into a mine producing an average 4.5 million metric tons of the key ingredient in steel production over some 48 years. The company said the project, which it equally owns with Vale SA (VALE), has a resource of 959 million tons and a reserve of 254 million tons. It is located in the coal-rich Bowen Basin in central Queensland, nearld," Chief Executive Mike Lynch said in a statement. "This acquisition makes Autonomy the cloud platform of choice, processing and understanding 25 petabytes of customer information," Lynch said, adding it places the group "at the centre of the changes in the analytics of unstructured data, processing in the cloud-based platforms and desktop virtualization." Autonomy expects cost synergies of approximately $40 million annually over the first year from completion of the deal, from a combination of efficiencies from utilization of Autonomy's IDOL server technology and overlapping general and administrative, data center and marketing programs. It expects restructuring costs of approximately $10 million in the two quarters, once the deal is completed. Autonomy said the acquisition is expected to have the "traditional effect" on gross and operating margins in the first few quarters following completion, with slight earnings dilution in the first quarter. It is expected to be neutral in 2011, with adjusted earnings per share accretion of approximately 15% in 2012. The company also expects