Tripoli, Sept 22 (ANI): Libyan rebels have reportedly captured one of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's last strongholds deep in the Sahara desert, finding chemical weapons, and largely taken control of another.
A National Transitional Council (NTC) spokesman said that its forces had seized the outpost of Jufra 435 miles southeast of Tripoli, and most of Sabha.
"The whole of the Jufra area, we have been told it has been liberated. There was a depot of chemical weapons and now it is under the control of our fighters," the Telegraph quoted NTC spokesman Fathi Bashaagha, as saying.
Although, his comments could not be confirmed independently.
Under Gaddafi's rule Libya was supposed to have destroyed its stockpile of chemical weapons in early 2004 as part of a rapprochement with the West under which it also abandoned a nuclear program.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, however, said that Libya kept 9.5 tonnes of mustard gas at a secret desert location.
"We control most of Sabha apart from the al-Manshiya district. This is still resisting, but it will fall," said Ahmed Bani, another NTC military spokesman.
Meanwhile, another NTC military spokesman, Ahmed Bani, that its forces have controlled most of Sabha apart from the al-Manshiya district.
"We control most of Sabha apart from the al-Manshiya district. This is still resisting, but it will fall," Bani said. (ANI)
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