Libyan rebels offer price for Gaddafi’s head

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Libyan rebels offer price for Gaddafi’s head

Libya's rebel council has promised to offer amnesty to any of Muammar Gaddafi's entourage who will kill or capture him.

The National Transition Council chairman, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, also said a Benghazi businessman, whom he did not identify, had offered a reward of two million Libyan dinars for Gaddafi's capture.

"The National Transitional Council announces that any of his entourage who kill Gaddafi or capture him, society will give amnesty or pardon for any crime he has committed," he told a news conference.

Gaddafi’s whereabouts is still unknown since rebels gained access into his compound on Tuesday.

He had issued a defiant audio message overnight, saying he would continue the fight against the rebels.

Assets hand over sought

Western leaders who backed the revolt with NATO air power remained wary of declaring outright victory while the 69-year-old Gaddafi is at large.

But the international powers and the rebel government-in-waiting in the eastern city of Benghazi lost no time in making arrangements for a handover of Libya's substantial foreign assets. Funds will be required to bring relief to war-battered towns and to develop oil reserves that can make Libya rich.

France was working with Britain and other allies to draft a new United Nations resolution intended to ease sanctions and asset freezes imposed on Libya when Gaddafi was in charge. Rebels also spoke of restarting oil export facilities soon.

The rebels believe Gaddafi may still be in or around Tripoli, having left his Bab al-Aziziya compound in the capital before it fell on Tuesday.

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