Apparently, the hunt for Qaddafi isn't going so well. According to the Washington Post, "A chaotic and apparently ill-coordinated effort by rebels to track down Moammar Gaddafi is being led by competing factions of military commanders and bounty hunters, as well as Libyan commandos commissioned by civilian leaders."
This scenario was easily foreseeable. In my recent Guardian piece, I noted that "bounties can even have a counterproductive effect on manhunts" as the hunters attempt to separate actual leads from wild rumors by people seeking to cash in. Subsequently, the Post reports "Scarcely a day goes by without someone claiming to know exactly where Gaddafi is hiding within that triangle. The problem is that they do not always agree with one another." Consequently, two different officials within the Transitional National Council are quoted as citing two different locations for the deposed dictator.
Interestingly, the article also supports two other themes from my book, noting that Qaddafi appears to be avoiding the use of satellite phones that NATO could trace, and that the territory in which he would be travelling through "is so vast that it would be difficult to spot from the air a convoy that could be sheltering Gaddafi."
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