A Libyan rebel leader says fighters have captured Moammar Gadhafi's foreign minister. Meanwhile the British government has delivered the first batch of unfrozen cash to the Transitional National Council.
World leaders were to meet in Paris today to plot Libya's post-Gaddafi future, as one of the fugitive dictator's sons pledged that loyalists would fight their rebel enemies to the death. The message of defiance punctured a festive mood in Tripoli but the announced capture of Gaddafi's foreign minister Abdelati al-Obeidi gave succour to those seeking to consign the regime to history.
There has been no firm word on Gaddafi's whereabouts since he appeared on television 11 days ago, although there is much speculation that he is holed up in either his stronghold of Sirte, the desert, or in a suburb near the capital. Today's conference in Paris, which will be attended by delegates from 60 countries, is expected to discuss funding for Libya as well as police training and diplomatic recognition for its new rulers. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be in Paris to sound out the rebels on what officials in Washington describe as their "enormous" needs as they try to establish a new government in Tripoli. The "credibility" of the National Transitional Council (NTC), the political umbrella for the rebels, rests on such achievements, a senior US official told reporters on condition of anonymity on Wednesday.
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