Heavy fighting raged Monday near the Tripoli compound of embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, an AFP reporter said, a day after jubilant rebel forces surged into the symbolic heart of the capital. Fighting was also heard from around 0400 GMT in the south of the capital, where there were exchanges of heavy weaponry and automatic rifle fire. Rebel leaders had earlier warned that pockets of resistance remained despite most of Kadhafi’s defenders vanishing during the rebels’ lightning charge through Tripoli on Sunday. The whereabouts of the Libyan strongman were unknown Monday but one of his sons, Seif al-Islam had been arrested while another, Mohamed Kadhafi was interviewed by Al-Jazeera…
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