Reply #30: Libya: Col Gaddafi's family dash across desert to Algeria

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Last Friday, more than three days after the fall of Col Muammar Gaddafi’s Bab al-Azizia compound, the soldiers of the Khamis Brigade in southern Tripoli were told to stand by for an important visitor.

Soon afterwards Gaddafi, sitting in the back seat of a black Hyundai saloon and dressed in a green civilian shirt and trousers, was driven through the gate.

The car, virtually indistinguishable from the taxis that ply their trade in the city, passed unnoticed only yards from the centre of the fighting in the southern outskirts of the Libyan capital.

Extraordinary new details of the Gaddafi clan’s last meeting after the fall of Tripoli – and the ousted dictator’s plans to flee – are considered to be the last confirmed sighting of the former Libyan strongman.

Details also emerged last night of how Gaddafi’s wife Safiya, his daughter Aisha and sons Hannibal, and Mohammed eluded the rebels to flee across the country in a convoy of armoured limousines before taking refuge in neighbouring Algeria.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8732200/Libya-Col-Gaddafis-family-dash-across-desert-to-Algeria.html