Libyan rebels reject Gaddafi’s negotiation offer

LIBYAN rebels have rejected an offer by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to negotiate and said they have captured the eastern town of Bin Jawwad, forcing regime loyalists to flee after days of fighting.

With his regime crumbling, Gaddafi is on the run, but his chief spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said the deposed leader is still in Libya.

As the call for negotiations came, new signs emerged of arbitrary killings of detainees and civilians by Gaddafi forces during the rebels’ push into Tripoli earlier this week, including some 50 charred corpses at a regime lockup.