Qaddafi Forces Given Deadline to Surrender

By KAREEM FAHIM
NYT

TRIPOLI, Libya — Saying that they had a “good idea” where Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi was hiding, the Libyan rebels on Tuesday gave the colonel’s recalcitrant loyalists four days to surrender or face military action against holdout towns.

The rebels also demanded that Algeria repatriate a clutch of Qaddafi family members — including his daughter and her newborn daughter — who fled into exile there on Monday.

The ultimatums signaled a rebel movement emboldened by the NATO-backed military advances that swept it into Tripoli, the capital, and its growing acceptance abroad. The demands came as anxiety eased in Tripoli, more than a week after rebel forces seized Colonel Qaddafi’s compound here in heavy fighting that marked his political demise after nearly 42 years of harsh and eccentric rule.

The whereabouts of Colonel Qaddafi and his most influential sons remained unknown.

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