Noose tightens around fleeing Gadhafi, Kaddafi, Qadafi

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Libyan Rebels Pledge Assault on Qaddafi Stronghold

Published August 30, 2011

FoxNews.com

Muammar Qaddafi was reportedly last seen heading south of Tripoli after holding meetings in the capitol Friday, a bodyguard of one of his sons told Sky News.

Abdu Salam Ataher-Ali, a 17-year-old member of Khamis Qaddafi's protection team, told Sky News that Qaddafi arrived in a car and met Khamis and his daughter before heading in convoy towards Sabha. 

Ataher-Ali then confirmed reports by rebel commanders that Khamis has been killed in an airstrike near Tripoli, saying Khamis was killed when his car armored car was hit by a missile allegedly launched by a NATO helicopter. 

NATO has not confirmed these reports, Sky News said. 

This report comes after Libyan rebels say they're closing in on the Libyan leader and had issued an ultimatum Tuesday to regime loyalists in the fugitive dictator's home of Sirte, his main remaining bastion: surrender this weekend or face an attack. 

"We have a good idea where he is," a top rebel leader said.

The rebels, tightening their grip on Libya after a military blitz, also demanded that Algeria return Qaddafi's wife and three of his children who fled there Monday. Granting asylum to his family, including daughter Aisha who gave birth in Algeria on Tuesday, was an "enemy act," said Ahmed al-Darrad, the rebels' interior minister.

Rebel leaders insisted they are slowly restoring order in the war-scarred capital of Tripoli after a week of fighting, including deploying police and collecting garbage. Reporters touring Tripoli still saw chaotic scenes, including desperate motorists stealing fuel from a gas station.

In the capital's Souk al Jumma neighborhood, about 200 people pounded on the doors of a bank, demanding that it open. Civil servants said they were told they would receive a $200 advance on their salaries for the three-day Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which starts Wednesday in Libya.

Rebel fighters were converging on the heavily militarized town of Sirte, some 250 miles east of Tripoli.

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“Gaddafi? Kaddafi? Qaddafi? How do you spell the Libyan leader’s name?

Published: 10:18 AM 02/23/2011 | Updated: 2:19 PM 02/23/2011

 

By Laura Donovan - The Daily Caller

So which one is it: Gadhafi? Gaddafi? Khaddafy? Kaddafi? Qaddafi?

The list of possible spellings for the Libyan colonel, who has been in power since 1969, continues, much to the frustration of news readers and writers.

Major news outlets nationwide, including the New York Times, Reuters, and CNN among others, can’t seem to agree on a universal way to write up the leader’s name, causing many people to initially assume a correction was needed when newspapers and television stations first began reporting on the country’s current unrest.

The mass confusion may be warranted, however. The Christian Science Monitor reported Tuesday that there is no across-the-board accepted authority for transliterating Arabic names, hence no one can seem to determine the correct spelling of the name. CSM added that the Libyan leader’s official website spells his name as, “AL Gathafi,” but the site includes several different spellings of the leader’s name.

The perplexity doesn’t start at Gaddafi and end with Qaddafi, either. The leader’s first name has been spelled as Muammar, Moammar, Mu’ammar, and Moamar.

ABC News reports there are 112 ways to spell the name and spells it as Moammar Gaddafi for their own articles. According to this piece, the Library of Congress has 72 alternate spellings for the Libyan strongman’s name.

CSM found that BBC, the Guardian, and Reuters write, “Muammar Gaddafi” to describe the Libyan leader. CNN, The Associated Press, and MSNBC spell it, “Moammar Gadhafi. The New York Times spells it “Muammar el-Qaddafi.” The leader’s Wikipedia page uses the spelling, “Muammar al-Gaddafi.” Google’s search engine seems to accept “Gaddafi” as the right manner of spelling the name, as most other variants will lead the site to prompt you with the question, “Did you mean gaddafi?”

CSM arbitrarily chose to go with Muammar Qaddafi, but The Daily Caller has yet to decide on which spelling of the name to use. Stay tuned.

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