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Gaddafi 'Seen in Zimbabwe on Mugabe's Private Jet'

Kompas.com - 28/08/2011, 01:23 WIB

KOMPAS.com - Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has fled Libya to Zimbabwe on a jet provided by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, it was claimed today, as rebels began the march on his home town.

President Mugabe's political opponents claim their spies saw Gaddafi arrive in the country on a Zimbabwe Air Force jet in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

They say the Libyan dictator was taken to a mansion in Harare's Gunninghill suburb, where agents from his all-female bodyguard were apparently seen patrolling the grounds.

'There's no doubt that Gaddafi is here as a 'unique guest' of Mugabe,' a spokesman for Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change told the Sun.

If he has left Libya, Gaddafi could have fled from an airbase in his home town of Sirte, which has been bombarded by Nato warplanes in recent days. The colonel's bunker in the coastal town was blitzed by cruise missiles fired by British Tornado jets on a long-range sortie on Friday night.

As Tripoli came under full rebel control today, journalists from Sky News reported that they had seen evidence of a mass grave after as many as 150 were massacred.

Stuart Ramsay, the news network's chief correspondent, said he had counted 53 bodies in a burnt out warehouse shown to him by locals, who said the people there were murdered earlier this week.

Among the dead were two Libyan army soldiers, their hands tied behind their backs, he said, adding: 'Locals believed they refused to fire and were then murdered.'

Earlier Libyan rebels claimed victory in Ras Jdir, raising their flag at the border post with Tunisia after bloody clashes with regime loyalists.

There was no sign of a swift end to the civil war, which rebels have vowed will only end when Gaddafi is captured - dead or alive - but they claimed to be closing in on the strongman.

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