CIVILIANS pouring out of Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown Sirte said the horror of the battle for the city finally forced them to conquer their fear of the besieging new regime forces and leave.

Muammar Gaddafi supporters rocketed a front line south of Tripoli today, testing the patience of the country’s new leaders as a grace period for the holdouts to surrender runs out.

Interpol has issued red notices for the arrest of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and the country’s ex-head of military intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi.

The US Senate condemned the “gross and systematic violations of human rights in Libya” and demanded that its leader Muammar Gaddafi leave office.

The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi said today he is working to win the release of Briton Ken Bigley, being held hostage in Iraq.