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Envoys Dangle Financial Offer to Key Gadhafi Aides

LONDON -- It's an offer that European diplomats hope Moammar Gadhafi's family and top aides can't refuse: If they publicly withdraw support for the Libyan dictator's regime, the restrictions on their assets, cash and travel plans can be made to vanish. Britain's Foreign Office said Tuesday that Kim Darroch, the U.K.'s...

Envoy Says Gadhafi Seeking End to Libya Crisis

BENGHAZI, Libya - An envoy of Moammar Gadhafi told Greece's prime minister Sunday that the Libyan leader was seeking a way out of his country's crisis two weeks after his government's attacks to put down a rebellion drew international airstrikes, Greek officials said. Abdul-Ati al-Obeidi, a former Libyan prime minister...

As US Eases Off in Libya, Gadhafi Holds On

WASHINGTON - Two weeks after a dark-of-night barrage of mostly U.S. missiles and bombs opened the international air assault on Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, the American combat role is ending, the rag-tag rebels are reeling and the Pentagon is betting its European allies can finish the job. Gadhafi is still standing, with a...

Libyan Rebels Close In on Key Gadhafi Stronghold

RAS LANOUF, Libya -- Libya's rebel forces closed in Monday on Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, the gateway to the western half of the country, after it was targeted for the first time by international air strikes. Celebratory gunfire broke out in the early hours of the morning in the rebel city of Benghazi amid rumors...

Background on gadhafi

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi () (June 194220 October 2011), commonly known as Muammar Gaddafi ( ' ) or Colonel Gaddafi, was the official ruler of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then the "Brother Leader" of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. Gaddafi seized power in a bloodless military coup in 1969 and served as the country's head of state until 1977, when he stepped down from his official executive role as Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of Libya, and claimed subsequently to be merely a symbolic figurehead.

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