Libya: Rebels offer reward for Gaddafi

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Rebels offered a $1.7 million reward for the elusive Muammar Gaddafi, while dead or alive.

24 August,2011 10:51 pm

Fighting raged Wednesday as Muammar Gaddafis troops fought back near his Tripoli compound a day after it was captured.Meanwhile, international backers of the insurgency were moving to free up billions of dollars in frozen assets for them and a group of 30 mostly foreign journalists who had been confined to Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel were freed.Rebels and Gaddafi forces were fighting with light arms, heavy machine guns, rocket propelled grenades and mortars.Fighting also spread to the nearby Abu Slim area, where loyalist were on the attack, in marked contrast to Tuesday’s battle for Bab al-Aziziya when they fled as the rebels breached the gates.Rebel commanders said they were determined to push the loyalist troops out of the area. Two powerful blasts thought to be caused by an air strike rocked the capital early Wednesday as a NATO warplane flew overhead.Rebels also claimed that they had found no trace of Gaddafi when they swarmed through his compound on Tuesday.