By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, September 1, 10:42 PM
TRIPOLI, Libya — Rebels hunting the top officials in Moammar’s Gadhafi’s ousted regime have captured his foreign minister and are closing in on Gadhafi himself, rebel officials said Thursday.
The announcement, made on the 42nd anniversary of the coup that brought Gadhafi to power, also came as rebels forces pressed toward three major bastions of the crumbling regime, including Gadhafi’s hometown.
(Mikhail Metzel, File/Associated Press) - FILE - In this Wednesday, July 20, 2011 file photo, Libyan Foreign Minister Abdul-Ati al-Obeidi gets into a car outside the Russian Foreign Ministry, after meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow. Libyan rebels have captured Moammar Gadhafi’s foreign minister, a rebel official said Thursday. Ahmed Said, an adviser to the interior minister in the rebels’ interim government, confirmed that the foreign minister had been captured but he did not identify him by name. A week ago, Gadhafi’s Foreign Minister Abdul Ati al-Obeidi told British broadcaster Channel 4 that Gadhafi’s 42-year rule was over.
“The regime is dying,” rebel council spokesman Abdel-Hafiz Ghoga said late Wednesday, after two of Gadhafi’s sons made conflicting statements on Arab television stations — with one vowing to fight until death and the other offering to negotiate a truce. “Gadhafi’s family is trying to find an exit,” Ghoga said. “They only have to surrender completely to the rebels and we will offer them a fair trial. We won’t hold negotiations with them over anything.”
Algeria offered safe haven to Gadhafi’s wife and three of his children Monday, angering the Libyan rebels. The Algerian newspaper El Watan reported that Gadhafi himself also sought refuge, but the Algerian president refused to take his phone calls.
With Gadhafi’s whereabouts unknown, Algeria’s foreign minister insisted Thursday that he’s not in Algeria. Asked on Europe-1 radio if Gadhafi could be given asylum, Mourad Medelci said, “I don’t believe so.”
Thursday marks the coup against the monarchy of King Idris by 27-year-old Gadhafi and a group of military officers. Gadhafi took undisputed power and became a symbol of anti-Western defiance in a Third World recently liberated from its European colonial rulers. A brutal dictator, his regime was unchallenged until the uprising that began in February.
Ahmed Said, an adviser to the interior minister in the rebels’ interim government, did not identify the captured foreign minister by name, but “can confirm that he is in custody.”
A week ago, Foreign Minister Abdul Ati al-Obeidi told British broadcaster Channel 4 that Gadhafi’s rule was over.
After six months of civil war, rebels have seized control of most of Libya, including the capital Tripoli, effectively ending Gadhafi’s rule. The longtime leader and his family have not been captured, but rebels say they are hot on Gadhafi’s trail.
Rebels say they are carefully pulling together clues about Gadhafi’s whereabouts from captured regime fighters and others, and learned earlier this week that Gadhafi and two of his sons — longtime heir-apparent Seif al-Islam and former special forces commander al-Saadi — were in the loyalist-controlled town of Bani Walid, said Ghoga. But, he added, it’s not clear where they are now.
Late Wednesday, men claiming to be Seif al-Islam and al-Saadi made their appeals from hiding.
Seif al-Islam urged his father’s supporters to fight the rebels “day and night.” He told the Syrian-based Al-Rai TV station that residents of Bani Walid agreed that “we are going to die on our land.” Seif al-Islam was once considered the moderate face of the Gadhafi regime and the leader’s heir apparent.
He said NATO had carried out several deadly airstrikes in Bani Walid.
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