'Gaddafi surrounded'

Former rebels claim they know where the ousted leader is hiding

Published Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Libya rebel local military chief and mosque preacher Sheikh Hussein Furjani, left, gestures during a raid in a house of suspected Gadhafi supporters in Khalet El Furjan district inTripoli, Libya. (AP)

A spokesman for Tripoli's new military council says the former rebels know where ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is hiding, and it is only a matter of time until he is captured or killed.

Anis Sharif says Gaddafi is still in Libya, and has been tracked using human intelligence and technology . Sharif refused to say where he is, but said he is trapped in a 40-mile- (60 kilometer-) radius area surrounded by rebels.

"He can't get out," Sharif says Wednesday. He says the former rebels are preparing to either detain him or kill him.

Locating Gaddafi would help seal the new rulers' hold on the country.

Convoys of Gaddafi loyalists fled across the Sahara into Niger earlier this week.

Comments

SS 8 September 2011 09:09
After all this is over..hope the oil does not fall into the wrong hands (foreign powers)
samstev 7 September 2011 23:45
let peace reign. Gadhafi should be captured and tried, I believe he will expose some issues.
brudh 7 September 2011 23:24
Intervening nations, including the U.S., should remember that if dissenting political factions cannot oust existing ones by their own military means, than neither can they rule for long by their own political ones.
brudh 7 September 2011 22:34
Let's allow the world's countries to determine their political destinies naturally without our meddling. We need the full amount of our resources to combat our own plentiful problems.
Zack 7 September 2011 20:29
The rebels took advice from foreign elements to oust Gaddafi, but it will benefit only the ones who encourage them to do so. The rebels should take a lesson from Egypt. Are the Egyptians better off today?
Zack 7 September 2011 20:23
This is all about oil as with Iraq. Next will be Iran, then Venezuela and so on. US & Britain are only interested in capturing all of those oilfields. The bad news is that oil will eventually ran out.
EUE 7 September 2011 20:20
How could a lunatic as Gaddafi be allowed to rule Libya? He is deranged and should be dealt with, forthwith.
MDS 7 September 2011 17:58
Haha, Fabio you sound as delusional as Gaddafi and his retard puppet Moussa Ibrahim. Everybody knows Gaddafi is finished. Game is over now; the rebels will finish cleaning up the trash.
Barbie 7 September 2011 17:57
Well this is the battle of roses_oil. I am not supporting US or Gaddafi, there's lack of agreement in this case! Gaddafi promised US oil but put rebels in that zone. US should take it easy, oh! This world will pass by!
Fabio 7 September 2011 17:32
Ghaddafi will defeat all the rats.
AAR 7 September 2011 16:55
Only for oil, all this dirty game. Libyan rebels you were fools.
Small Pikin 7 September 2011 15:12
Gaddafi should be killed as soon as he is seen... that's the best way and only way for peace.
Igoru sivo 7 September 2011 14:30
Gaddafi should not be pardon.
Electra 7 September 2011 14:15
Of course rebels know exactly and all they say is only the truth and nothing but the truth. Ha, by the way... liars