Gaddafi's brigades have enough military equipment to fight for several months A spokesman for Colonel Gaddafi, Moussa Ibrahim, has said that Gaddafi’s brigades have enough military equipment to fight for several more months. Ibrahim insists that Gaddafi is still in Libya , and remains the Commander of the loyalist forces in their campaign against the interim government.
In a statement aired on the Syrian television network, Al-Rai, Ibrahim said that NATO had bombed apartment buildings in Sirte, killing 354 civilians.
Gaddafi’s forces have launched a barrage of rockets and mortars to repel the NTC’s forces in Bani Walid, one of their few remaining strongholds.
Ibrahim claims that loyalists forced NTC rebels to retreat from Bani Walid in the face of heavy gunfire.
Ibrahim claims that loyalists also stopped the progression of rebel forces into Gaddafi’s hometown, Sirte.
Meanwhile, Niger’s government has said that it will not return Saadi Gaddafi to Libya.
Although Niger said last week that it would meet any international obligations in relation to the handover of Gaddafi elite to the international courts, it has refused Saadi’s extradition on the grounds that he might be subjected to the death penalty.
Meanwhile, the British newspaper, the Guardian has revealed that the British government cooperated with the Gaddafi regime and handed over Gaddafi opponents to Tripoli, despite knowing that the opponents would be subjected to torture.
Although former Prime Minister Tony Blair and former-Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, have denied knowing about the cases which were carried out by Britain’s secret intelligence agency, MI6, evidence suggests that each case received direct ministerial approval.
The head of British intelligence described the cooperation with the Gaddafi regime as "not comfortable", but "pragmatic.”
According to The Guardian, the documents were found in the offices of Musa Kusa, the former-chief of Libyan intelligence, and the former Foreign Minister in Tripoli.
The documents showed that Abdelhakim Belhadj, a current military commander in Tripoli, was among those returned.