A Reward was Offered to Capture Gaddafi ‘dead or alive’

A $ 1.7 million reward was offered today for the capture of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi as Foreign Secretary William Hague called on the Libyan dictator to recognise his 42-year rule was over and stand down his forces.

Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of the Transitional National Council, said he supported the offer by Libyan businessmen for a reward of two million Libyan dinars to anyone handing over Gadhafi “dead or alive”.

He also offered amnesty to “members of (Gadhafi’s) close circle who kill him or capture him”.