Gaddafi seen in Zimbabwe, Mugabe’s political opponents claim

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, August 28th, 2011

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

According to a Daily Mail report, President Mugabe’s political opponents claimed their spies saw Gaddafi arrive in the country on a Zimbabwe Air Force jet in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

They said 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 dictator’s bunker in the coastal town was blitzed by cruise missiles fired by British Tornado jets on a long-range sortie last night.

As Tripoli came under full rebel control on Sunday, 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.

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