Sunday, August 28, 2011

#Gaddafi is ready to begin talks to transfer power, his spokesman has said, aadi would lead the talks


Gaddafi 'offers talks on power transfer'  
Fugitive Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi is ready to begin talks to transfer power, his spokesman has said.
Moussa Ibrahim reportedly said the toppled leader's son Saadi would lead the talks. The rebels say they will not negotiate until he surrenders.
Meanwhile, desperately-needed fuel and water supplies are expected to arrive in the Libyan capital Tripoli later.
More than 50 charred bodies have been found in a burnt-out warehouse in the south of the capital.
Residents of the district of Salah al-Din said they were civilians who had been executed on Tuesday by members of a brigade commanded by Col Gaddafi's son, Khamis, before they abandoned a nearby military base.
Human Rights Watch says it has evidence that pro-Gaddafi forces killed at least 17 prisoners and carried out "suspected arbitrary executions of dozens of civilians, including professionals" in the days before Tripoli fell to the rebels.
On Friday, more than 200 decomposing bodies were found at an abandoned hospital in the capital's Abu Salim district. Doctors and nurses fled because of the fighting and many injured patients were left to die.
'Sea of blood'
The Associated Press news agency in New York reported that it had received a call from Col Gaddafi's spokesman Moussa Ibrahim, who said the former leader was still in Libya although he did not specify where.