Gaddafi vows fight as rebels celebrate takeover

Rebels gather connection in Tripoli on Wednesday to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi Bab al-Aziziya, forces when fighting is raging in the area a day after it was captured opposition with loyalist troops a chase and the strongman with, that he went wa

Agence France-Presse. Tripoli

Fighting raged Wednesday as Muammar al-Gaddafi again when his composite Tripoli a day fought troops after he was captured and one rebel reward of $1.7 million for the difficult strongman alive or dead.

In the meantime were international backers of the rebels move to release billions of dollars in frozen assets for them.

Thick smoke hung over the Bab al-Aziziya complex, where the rebels and Gaddafi forces heavy machine guns fought in the afternoon with small arms, rocket propelled grenades and mortars, said an AFP reporter.

Fighting continued on Abu-slim close, where Loyalists were to attack, in contrast to Tuesday fight to Bab al-Aziziya when they fled as the rebels violated the gates.

Rebel commanders said, however, that they were determined, the loyalist troops area push out houses the Rixos Hotel.

Many streets were empty, with commanders, who say that dozens of Pro-Gaddafi had taken up sniper positions.

"There are snipers on and around the perimeter of the Bab al-Aziziya;" There are dozens of them, but we do not know where they are,' a rebel chief said Nuri Mohammed.

Thought two powerful blasts which rocked by an air attack the capital early Wednesday as a NATO-warp-Gasse flew overhead.

A military rebel spokesman in an interview with Al-Jazeera TV said "Libyan territory is 90-95 percent under the control of the rebellion."

Colonel Abdullah Abu AFRA said, 'The case of the Bab al-Aziziyah the end of the Gaddafi regime in Tripoli and Libya marks.'

The fate of Gaddafi and his family a secret, but the former Colonel remains a message in which he said that his resignation from the Bab al-Aziziya is a tactical retreat.

Rebels said that she had found no trace of Gaddafi, when she swarmed through his marriage on Tuesday.

In a speech, carried out the early Wednesday from the site of a TV station, which under the leadership of his son Seif al-Islam, he said Gaddafi his composite 'tactical retreat' abandoned after it was destroyed by NATO planes.

"Bab al-Aziziya was nothing more than a pile of rubble after it was the target of 64 NATO missiles, and we moved for tactical reasons," he said.

In a later audio message in the Syria-based Arrai Oruba television boasted Gaddafi that he on the streets of Tripoli had taken over, without is recognized.

' I went incognito, without having someone to see me, and I saw young people ready to defend their city ' he said without specifying when he did his tour.

He also called for "The people who go tribes, older people in the streets... and cleaning of Tripoli of rats" - on the rebels.

Where it has like, be the rebel Transitional National Council want him dead or alive, and a price of $1.7 million (EUR 1.2 million) on the head.

"The NTC supports the initiative of business people, dead or alive, offering 2 million dinars for the capture of Muammar al-Gaddafi,", said NTC Chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil in Benghazi.

Abdel Jalil also Amnesty offered "members (Gaddafi) close circle, which kill or catch it."

Gaddafi spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said Arrai Oruba more than 6,500 'voluntary' arrived in Tripoli for the regime had to fight and more called for.

Insurgents, nervous but jubelnden and armed with assault rifles, the streets of the capital combed Wednesday for remains of the regime.

"We are the Champions." We have for 42 years was die and now we are to live, "said Sharif Sohail, 34-year-old dentist, the arms of the city center."

Rebels, who the Tripoli airport on Sunday secured, it said the way out of town, fighter, with snipers still attacked sporadically by Gaddafi and that a rocket a plane on the runway was damaged on Tuesday.

Airport Manager Arabi Mustafa said, that if would be security, the problems are solved and restored water and electricity, the airport reopened.

Elsewhere, Jawad said rebels who bin advancing Sirte Wednesday in the city blocked a stiff resistance an insurgent Commander as loyalists held.

After the capture of Ras Lanuf, 150 kilometres west of Sirte, were the rebels had up to Jawad bin advanced, but rebel commander Fawzi Bukatif of artillery fire, said.

' Forces are Gaddafi still struggling, we are surprised. We thought they would do with the fall of Tripoli, "Bukatif said in the nearby coast of the Zuwaytina."

"Perhaps is something or someone behind them,", he said, "maybe" add, if you asked whether he was referring to Gaddafi or his sons.

In other developments, the United Kingdom and France, said that they are blocked at the United Nations to the Libyan assets Security Council sanctions unfreezing work.

'We, in the United Nations and elsewhere are, pave the way for the fixation of assets, Diplomaticaly' the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said in London, shortly after France confirmed it was trying to do a UN resolution.

A British official said that the resolution would include release of assets, to help rebels set up a Government and urgent humanitarian needs.

It came a day after the United States said that it release worked through the UN to $1.5 billion in frozen Libyan assets for the coffers rebels.

In Moscow, President Dmitry Medvedev said that the Libyan rebels would recognise Russia, if they ' country combine with the warning that Gaddafi, the Kremlin age of ally, continue to influence persisted.

"Despite the successes of the rebels of Gaddafi and his supporters have still have some influence and military potential." We want them to sit at the negotiating table and agreements on the future peace ' Medvedev said.

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