Libya convoy, the troops in Niger Tuareg Crosses

Niamey, Niger (World News) - A large convoy of soldiers loyal to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has fallen over the edge of the desert in Niger, and rolled into the border town of Agadez on Sunday night, a resident who is an owner local newspaper.

The convoy consisted of more than a dozen trucks packed with well-armed Libyan troops, said Abdoulaye Harouna, the newspaper of the owner information of Agadez, who saw them happen.

At the head of the convoy, he said, Tuareg rebel leader Rissa Ag Boula, a native of Niger, which led a failed war of independence on behalf of the nomadic Tuareg decade ago was. He sought refuge in Libya and was believed to fight on behalf of Gaddafi.

It was not immediately clear is whether the convoy Gaddafi family members or other senior members of his regime included.

Gaddafi is especially popular in cities such as Agadez, where a majority of the population and where the Tuareg ex-King for his generosity and support of the Tuareg minority in their struggle for autonomy known. The city of the Sahara, the market is the largest city in northern Niger.

Harouna

said the soldiers Boula accompany per-Qaddafi came from the direction of Arlit. The desert that stretches north of Arlit borders both Libya and Algeria. Some family members Gaddafi, including his wife, daughter and two of his son, who recently sought refuge in Algeria.

Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan reigned for over 40 years, was on the run since losing control of his capital, Tripoli, in the last month, but the rebels say at least two of his son was already in the city of Bani Walid, one of the last bastions of pro-Gaddafi, in recent days. Moussa Ibrahim, a spokesman for Gaddafi and his main collaborators, were governed by the city, said rebel representatives.

Thousands of rebels have surrounded Bani Walid, but again approximately one last attack in the hope of avoiding a bloody battle for the desert city 90 miles (140 kilometers) south of Tripoli held. The rebels say that a small force, but the heavily armed pro-Gaddafi fighter - at least some of them leading members of his ousted regime - took defensive positions in the city

Most of Libya received. the insurgency that Gaddafi swept from power, although the rebels - of the NATO air raids backed up - even to loyalist strongholds such as the Bani Walid, captured Gaddafi hometown of Sirte and isolated town south Sabha

The rebels have extended. Saturday deadline for the handover of Sirte and other loyalist areas, although some rebel leaders said they could Bani Walid early attack, because he has so many prominent loyalists.