Claims on Gadhafi seeking refuge

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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 20, 2011 -- "Move always forward to the challenge; pick up your weapons; go to the fight in order to liberate Libya inch by inch from the traitors and from NATO. Be prepared to fight if they hit the ground,"

Libyan officials are refuting rebel claims that Moammar Gadhafi is seeking refuge for his family, saying Friday that neither the leader nor his wife and children plan to leave the country.Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim told CNN that Gadhafi and his family are staying in the country, countering rebel reports that the governments of Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria have been asked to accept the family. U.S. and NATO officials also say they have no indication Gadhafi is making preparations to leave.

"Impossible to say when he'll go, but it's clear that he will go," Toner told CNN's Brooke Baldwin.Meanwhile Friday, opposition forces said a former Libyan prime minister has left Tripoli and joined with rebels in the country's western mountains.Abdel Salam Jalloud "is in Zintan and he is a free man among the rebels," said Jumma Ibrahim, a spokesman for the Military Council of the Western Mountain Region, a rebel group.

Abdel Monem al-Houni, a representative of the rebel Transitional Council in Cairo, told CNN he was informed about the request by the Arab governments who received it.Kaim said the four governments could speak on their own behalf about the rebel claims.The reports come as U.S. officials say the embattled leader from http://www.cheapherveleger2011.com may be making preparations for a last stand in Tripoli as a months-long NATO air campaign continues amid reports of rebel advances.

"We believe he could be planning for a last stand," one U.S. official said.A second U.S. official confirmed a similar concern and said the Gadhafi plan could involve a final military offensive against civilians, launched from his last major strongholds around the Libyan capital.The officials, who have knowledge of the situation on the ground, did not want to be named because of the sensitive intelligence matters.In an address broadcast on Libyan state television Monday, Gadhafi urged supporters to take up arms and battle rebel forces.

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