SHISHAN: There are reports of a Libyan military convoy with Moamer Qadhafi rumoured aboard has crossed into Niger, as new regime fighters were poised to strike at the toppled strongman’s last bastions.
Qadhafi’s spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, however insisted the fugitive dictator is in top health and planning his country’s defence, and that he and his sons were ready to fight to the death, though he gave no clue of their whereabouts.
A Niger military source referring to the northern Niger city of Agadez said that, “I saw an exceptionally large and rare convoy of several dozen vehicles enter Agadez from Arlit and go towards Niamey, There are persistent rumours that Qadhafi or one of his sons are travelling in the convoy,”
A journalist from a private radio station in Agadez said he saw “a convoy of several dozen vehicles crossing the city and heading towards Niamey”, the Niger capital.
Another Nigerien government source earlier said prominent regime officials had fled across the border on Sunday. They included Qadhafi’s internal security chief Mansour Daw, who was earlier reported to be in the loyalist stronghold Bani Walid with at least two of the fallen strongman’s sons.
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