Algeria : The wife of Muammar Gaddafi along with three of his children reached Algeria on Monday to took refuge there but the whereabouts of the Colonel Gaddafi remained a mystery a week after rebels drove him from power.
Gaddafi’s wife Safia, his daughter Aisha and his sons Hannibal and Mohammed had entered Algeria on Monday morning according to Algeria’s Foreign Ministry.
The development threatened to create a diplomatic rift just as the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) worked to consolidate its position as Libya’s new government.
NTC spokesman also claimed that Gaddafi’s son Khamis had been killed in a clash outside of Tripoli but the report could not be independently verified.
Meanwhile rebel forces converged on Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte from east and west, intent on seizing one of his last bastions of support either by force or by negotiation.
Muammar Gaddafi’s whereabouts have not been known since Tripoli fell to his foes and his 42-year-old rule collapsed a week ago after a six-month uprising backed by the West and several Arab nations.
On other hand NATO warplanes have struck at Sirte, on the Mediterranean coast, in recent days and Britain said its aircraft also attacked artillery units of Gaddafi forces near Sidra, west of the oil town of Ras Lanuf.
On Sirte the last stand of Gaddafi the Rebel forces were advancing towards Sirte from east and west even as contacts continued for its surrender. Their eastern column had pushed past the village of Bin Jawad and secured the Nawfaliya junction By Monday.
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