Gaddafi’s forces target rebels as crisis worsens

MUAMMAR GADDAFI’S forces battled rebels on several fronts in a worsening of Libya’s crisis and unrest erupted in the capital when gunmen fired to break up crowds shouting “Gaddafi is the enemy of God.”

Paris-based Interpol delivered a global alert against Gaddafi and 15 members of his inner circle to help police around the world enforce UN sanctions aimed at ending turmoil in the world’s 12th largest oil exporter.

Vowing “victory or death,” eastern-based rebels pressed home a westwards push toward Gaddafi’s Tripoli stronghold with an attack on the oil town of Ras Lanuf, which lies on a strategic coastal road, claiming to have taken its airport.