LIBYA’S new regime fighters retreated yesterday under fire from Muammar Gaddafi diehards in his hometown Sirte as their leaders backtracked on an announcement that they had captured one of his sons.

Revolutionary forces captured fighters close to Mutassim Gaddafi, one of fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi’s sons in his father’s home town, but there was no confirmation that he had been captured, a Libyan spokesman said today.

RECENTLY it was reported that Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, admitted that jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the battle against Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.