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| Ex-Libya PM al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi 'held in Tunisia' | Ex-Libya PM al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi 'held in Tunisia' |
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| Libya's former prime minister, Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, has been arrested in Tunisia, officials say. | |
| They said Mr Mahmoudi was arrested on Wednesday evening in southern Tunisia, near the border with Algeria. | |
| Mr Mahmoudi served as prime minister until Col Muammar Gaddafi was deposed last month. | Mr Mahmoudi served as prime minister until Col Muammar Gaddafi was deposed last month. |
| Col Gaddafi's whereabouts remain unknown as loyalists hold out in a few strongholds surrounded by troops loyal to the new interim leadership. | Col Gaddafi's whereabouts remain unknown as loyalists hold out in a few strongholds surrounded by troops loyal to the new interim leadership. |
| A report on a TV station run by Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) said Mr Mahmoudi had been detained in Tamaghza, near Tunisia's border with Algeria. | |
| He had been trying to cross the border, but gave himself up without resistance, the report said. | He had been trying to cross the border, but gave himself up without resistance, the report said. |
| It also claimed that he was carrying fake documents. | It also claimed that he was carrying fake documents. |
| However, a report by Agence France-Presse news agency quoted an unnamed Tunisian security official as saying that Mr Mahmoudi was entering Tunisia. | |
| Algeria has had difficult relations with Libya's new rulers, and gave refuge to Col Gaddafi's wife and three of his children. | |
| But on Thursday Algeria's foreign ministry said it was prepared to work closely with the NTC, the official Algerian news agency reported. | |
| Al-Arabiya TV quoted the Algerian foreign minister as saying his country had joined other countries in officially recognising the NTC. | |
| Meanwhile in Libya, NTC forces said they had captured all three main towns in the al-Jufra oasis in the south of the country. | |
| On Wednesday the NTC announced its forces had taken much of Libya's largest desert city, Sabha, also in the south. | |
| But the NTC fighters are still facing fierce resistance in two other Gaddafi strongholds, Bani Walid and Sirte. | |
| In the capital Tripoli on Thursday, the US raised its flag over the US embassy for the first time since the fall of Col Gaddafi. | |
| It comes a day after US Ambassador Gene Cretz arrived back in the country. | |
| Libya's Interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, who is at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, has said he expects a new government to be announced within 10 days. |