A group of rebels lording over the seat of government in Libya, on Thursday night, claimed it had taken over apartment buildings near the Bab al-Azzizyah compound believed to be where Muammar Gaddafi was hiding with some of his sons.
The unconfirmed report had it that the embattled leader had probably gone out of his unassuming safe house in central Tripoli “when agents arrived about 10.00 p.m. on Wednesday, after a tip-off from a credible source.”
However, the rebels who claimed they were at the last lap of capturing Gaddafi, did not give any pointer to why they believed the supposedly fleeing Libyan leader was inside with his sons.
Nonetheless, rebels were still exchanging gunfire with loyal armies of Gaddafi regime inside Gaddafi’s captured palace.
One of the rebels claiming Gaddafi had been captured reportedly told Reuters: “They are together. They are in a small hole. Today we finish. Today we will end that.”
Another intelligence source had said, on Wednesday, that Libyan rebels fighting to oust the Libyan leader came close to capturing Gaddafi on Wednesday.
According to a French weekly magazine, Paris Match, the intelligence source said to be co-ordinating affairs among intelligence services from Arab states and Libyan rebels believed Gaddafi was still trapped in Tripoli.
The report on the French magazine claimed that the rebels had already raided a private home in Tripoli where Gaddafi appeared to have been hiding.
According to the intelligence reports, the magazine affirmed that he was still somewhere in the Libyan capital.
However, the magazine said, “they found evidence that he had spent at least one night there, though it did not say how recently that was.”
Meanwhile, as fighting in central Tripoli continued on Thursday, with rebels claiming they believe Gaddafi and some of his sons are hiding, there was still an exchange of fire with the regime’s troops inside the buildings.
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