The Head of the National Transitional Council Mahmoud Jibril warned that the battle in Libya was not over yet, as rebels kept the fight in a bid to control whole of the country.
The Head of the National Transitional Council Mahmoud Jibril warned that the battle in Libya was not over yet, as rebels kept the fight in a bid to control whole of the country.
"The battle of liberation is not finished," Jibril said late Thursday in his first address in Tripoli.
"We have the right to defend ourselves even before the deadline," he added.
In defiant message on Thursday the fugitive Muammar Gaddafi dismissed as lies reports that he had fled to neighbouring Niger, insisting he was still in Libya.
"They have nothing else to resort to apart from psychological warfare and lies," Kadhafi told the Damascus-based Arrai Oruba television.
"We are ready in Tripoli and everywhere to intensify attacks against the rats, the mercenaries, who are a pack of dogs," he said.
Jibri also refused to speculate on Gaddafi’s whereabouts, saying that the battle for Libya's liberation would end only with the "capture or elimination of Gaddafi."
ATTEMPTS TO CAPTURE GADDAFI
The NTC fears Gaddafi will try to slip over one of Libya's porous borders, and Niger strongly denied he was there after a convoy carrying other senior ousted regime officials arrived on Monday.
In a bid to cut off Gaddafi's potential escape routes, the NTC said it had dispatched a team to the Niger capital Niamey.
Niger Foreign Minister said neither Gaddafi nor any other wanted fugitives had arrived in his country.
Human rights group Amnesty International said Libya's neighbors must arrest Gaddafi and others wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) if they cross the borders.
ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has asked Interpol to help by issuing a "red notice to arrest Moamer Kadhafi for the alleged crimes against humanity of murder and persecution", his office said
CHINA TO ASSIST IN LIBYA’S RECONSTRUCTION EFFORTS
For its part, China which long propped up the fallen strongman and has extensive business interests in Libya, said on Friday it is ready to assist in the North African nation's reconstruction efforts.
"It depends on the needs of the Libyan people themselves, whatever they need we will be willing to help them," said Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai, adding that China will support UN-led reconstruction efforts.
China is a major oil importer and needs to secure stable supplies of the resource to help keep its huge economy moving.
Libya produced about 1.6 million barrels of oil per day before the rebellion against Gaddafi broke out in February, but output has since slowed to a trickle.
