Kadhafi forces fight back as reward offered for strongman 08/26/2011

Kadhafi forces fight back as reward offered for strongman

08/26/2011
TRIPOLI — Fighting raged yesterday as Moammar Kadhafi’s troops fought back at his Tripoli compound a day after it was captured, while rebels offered a $1.7-million reward for the elusive strongman, dead or alive.

Diplomatic efforts, meanwhile, were launched at the United Nations and in Qatar by backers of the insurgents to secure the unlocking of billions of dollars of Libyan assets for the rebels.

Washington, for its part, said Libya’s stockpile of weapons of mass destruction had been secured and that it was confident the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) could set up governing structures after overrunning Tripoli.

A group of mostly foreign journalists who had been confined to Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel by pro-Kadhafi hardliners were freed but other loyalists kidnapped four Italian journalists near the capital, and two French journalists were wounded by stray gunfire at the compound but were recovering..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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