Ultimatum for Gadhafi forces: Surrender in 4 days

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Ultimatum for Gadhafi forces: Surrender in 4 days

TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI — Libya's interim leader gave forces loyal to deposed ruler Moammar Gadhafi a four-day deadline on Tuesday to surrender towns they still control or face a bloody end to a war that the new leadership said has so far killed 50,000 people.

Anti-Gadhafi forces have converged on Sirte from east and west, but have stopped short of an all-out assault in hopes of arranging a negotiated surrender of Gadhafi's birth-place.

"By Saturday, if there are no peaceful indications for implementing this, we will decide this matter militarily. We do not wish to do so but we cannot wait longer," Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of Libya's interim council, told a news conference.

<..> In an overnight phone call to AP headquarters in New York, Gadhafi's chief spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim said the rebels' ultimatium would be rejected.

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[DFLforever]

That gives the Libyan NTC four more days to capture Gaddafi or one or more of his sons.

That would help at Sirte.

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It would help, they say they are closing in on him. With his wife and family gone to Algeria, who knows where he's hiding.