Dubai: Forces of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) say they have identified the whereabouts of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi, an Al Jazeera television correspondent reported yesterday.
The reporter quoted the head of the military council in Tripoli, Abdul Hakim Belhadj, but Al Jazeera did not identify the location. The report came as Libyan revolutionaries were set to attack one of Gaddafi's remaining strongholds.
Colonel Ahmad Bani, the revolutionaries' military spokesman said members of the tribe that dominates Bani Walid, the Warfala, are divided over whether to join the revolutionaries.He said the Warfala may surrender to avoid fighting one another.
Bani added people in Bani Walid have told the revolutionaries one of Gaddafi's sons, Saif Al Islam, had fled to Bani Walid soon after Tripoli fell, but left recently for fear townspeople would hand him over to the revolutionaries.
Police jobs
Libya's interim government moved to calm its anxious fighters by announcing plans to draft thousands of the men who ousted Gaddafi into the police and find other jobs for the rest.
NTC officials yesterday announced plans to train 3,000 of demobilised revolutionary fighters as police and national security officers and to set up training schemes and scholarships for others.
Many young fighters say they were driven to join the revolution against Gaddafi because they were unemployed and were tired of seeing the country's huge oil wealth benefiting a small elite around the leader and his family.
Meanwhile, intelligence documents obtained by the media revealed yesterday that Gaddafi warned Britain of "dire consequences" for relations between Libya and Britain if the convicted Lockerbie bomber died in a Scottish jail.
Revelations
In the latest revelations from intelligence documents obtained by media and rights groups in Tripoli, British officials feared Gaddafi "might seek to extract vengeance" if the cancer-stricken Abdul Basset Al Megrahi was not released.
The Mail on Sunday newspaper cited documents found strewn in the abandoned British ambassador's residence in Tripoli which it said showed the reasons why London wanted the devolved Scottish government to free Megrahi.
