The former topmost aide of embattled Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi believes that Gaddafi might be in southern Tripoli or has fled to the desert, a Lebanese newspaper said Friday.
Abdel Salam Jalloud, at a press conference in Italy late Thursday, was quoted by An Nahar as saying that Gaddafi will "probably stay in hiding in the southern part of Tripoli and then he will wait for the right moment to escape probably in disguise."
"The second possibility is that he already fled awhile ago and is at the border with Algeria, either in Sirte or in Sabha, and he will then cross the desert," Jalloud, who fled to Italy last Saturday, told reporters.
Jalloud, who helped Gaddafi come to power in the 1969 coup, was Gaddafi's right-hand man in the 1970s and 1980s. But he was sacked as prime minister by Gaddafi in 1990 after a fallout between the two and since then has stayed away from politics, DPA reported.
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