23-11-2024 11:12 AM Jerusalem Timing

Libya Battles Go on, Efforts Intensified to Track Gaddafi

Libya Battles Go on, Efforts Intensified to Track Gaddafi

Libyan rebels intensify their efforts to topple the remaining of Muammar Gaddafi regime. Fighters streamed the capital on Thursday in a bid to find the elusive strongman, dead or alive.

Libyan rebels intensify their efforts to topple the remaining of Muammar Gaddafi regime. Fighters streamed the capital on Thursday in a bid to find the elusive strongman, dead or alive.


Rebel commanders said they were also readying fresh attempts to advance against Gaddafi’s forces in his hometown Sirte, 360 kilometers east of Tripoli and to break a siege of Zuwarah, a town to the west.
They said that while they control most of Tripoli, hot spots remain where sniper fire, rocket explosions and heavy weaponry make life dangerous.


HUNTING FOR GADDAFI
In order to proclaim final victory against Gaddafi, rebels were being supported Kadhafi by NATO, has been using intelligence resource and electronic tracking device to try to track down the defiant leader.


Britain's Defense Minister Liam Fox told Sky news on Thursday that NATO is providing "intelligence and reconnaissance assets to the NTC to help them track down Colonel Gaddafi and other remnants of the regime."
The defense ministry said Fox was referring to "various assets such as military planes."


Meanwhile, the National Transitional Council offers a $1.7m reward and amnesty for the capture or killing of the Libyan leader.
"The NTC supports the initiative of businessmen who are offering two million dinars for the capture of Muammar Gaddafi, dead or alive," NTC chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil said in the rebel capital Benghazi.
Jalil also offered amnesty to "members of (Gaddafi's) close circle who kill him or capture him."


DEFIANT GADDAFI
Gaddafi's location was still unknown. However, as a reminder that he remained on the loose, the strongman made an audio address broadcast earlier on Wednesday, by the al-Rai television channel, in which h urged people to rebuff the advance of what he called traitors (rebels).


All Libyans must be present in Tripoli, young men, tribal men and women must sweep through Tripoli and comb it for traitors," he said. "I have been out a bit in Tripoli discreetly, without being seen by people, and ... I did not feel that Tripoli was in danger."
"These gangs seek to destroy Tripoli," Gaddafi said, referring to the rebels. "They are evil incarnate. We should fight them."