Reply #17: Summary of today's developments

[pinboy3niner]

From The Guardian's Live Blog:

• According to a former bodyguard for one of Muammar Gaddafi's sons, the Libyan leader is heading south via Bani Walid towards Sabha, the route also said to have been used by the members of his family who have escaped to Algeria (see 12.20pm ). Gaddafi was in Tripoli as late as Friday, having a 1.30pm meeting with his son Khamis and daughter Aisha, and then headed towards Sabha, 500 miles (800km) south in the desert, according to Khamis's 17-year-old bodyguard. An Italian news agency had earlier speculated Gaddafi and another son, Saif al-Islam, had fled to Bani Walid (see 10.54am). The rebel National Transitional Council's UK co-ordinator, Guma el-Gamaty said he thought Gaddafi was there too (see 2.12pm). Sabha is one of the last remaining major holdouts for Gaddafi's forces. Click here for a map of all these places and Gaddafi's possible route. There are reports Khamis and intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi were killed over the weekend, the third time Khamis has been reported dead during the conflict (see 8.55am). A Nato spokesman called that "rumour" (see 1.30pm ).


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2011/aug/30/libya-rebels-demand-gaddafi-family-return-updates#block-11