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Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim arrested fleeing Sirte 'dressed as woman'
Troops loyal to Libya's National Transitional Council have captured Moussa Ibrahim, who became an almost nightly feature on television earlier this year as the mouthpiece for Col Gaddafi's regime.
Ibrahim was caught yesterday trying to escape the port city of Sirte by car. According to some reports, he was dressed as a woman.
The announcement of his capture came from Mustafa bin Dardef of the Zintan brigade. According to the Lebanese site Ilouban.info, Ibrahim was found by fighters from Misrata who are among those involved in the siege of Sirte, Gaddafi's home town.
Until mid-August, Ibrahim, who spoke excellent English thanks to his years at Exeter University and the Royal Holloway College in London, gave nightly lectures about the evils of Nato and their underestimation of Gaddafi's forces to western journalists holed up in the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli.
He was swiftly dubbed 'Comical Moussa' - a reference to 'Comical Ali', Saddam Hussein's spokesman during the allied invasion of Libya in 2003.
While on the run, Ibrahim – also known as Musa Mansour - has continued to broadcast the Gaddafi line via a Syrian TV channel. Only last week he denounced the Nato "genocide" and appealed for forces loyal to Gaddafi to keep fighting "agents and traitors".
The whereabouts of Ibrahim's German-born wife, Julia Ramelow, and their baby son are not known. Nor are those of his old boss, Gaddafi - though the location of Ibrahim's capture increases the likelihood that the deposed dictator will be found in Sirte.
