Wikileaks: Gaddafi's Last Phone Call to Algeria Identified his Location

A new U.S diplomatic cable, published in Wikileaks website revealed that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi tried several times to contact the Algerian authorities, trying to resort to Algeria President Bouteflika, but he refused to respond to his contacts.‬

The same diplomatic cable spoke about the role of Algeria in determining where Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was hiding, and reporting the news to‬ Britain.

The telegram that was sent by U.S. diplomats from Libya, quoted an Algerian diplomat who works in Tripoli as saying: “Muammar Gaddafi asked asylum in Algeria, but the Algerian President refused to reply to all his repeated contacts, whether by phone calls or by his personal bodyguards.”

The telegram dated on September 1, 2011 read that Gaddafi asked asylum from Algeria after his sons and his first wife came to Algeria, despite NTC objected their departure from Libya,” as Gaddafi’s wife Safia and his daughter Aisha, and sons Mohammed and Hannibal arrived to Algeria on 26 August of last year. ‭

Wikileaks telegram revealed on new informations and described them as “secret”, about the killing of al-Qadhafi, confirming that “Algeria identified the location of Gaddafi after his last phone call to the Algerian authorities from the area of ​​Bani Walid, about 100 kilometers southwest of Tripoli, and has informed its British counterpart, which‭ sent its special forces to keep track of his movements‭”. ‬

The telegram confirmed that “Algeria was defending its interests and supported the elimination of Gaddafi to prevent him from an alliance with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb”, especially after Gaddafi threats the West to create a new alliance with al-Qaeda and “Declared the Jihad” if a military attack will be carried out against Libya.

This telegram comes to refute all the previous accusations that NTC had addressed to Algeria, and which said that Algeria was supporting Gaddafi regime, by opening the borders between the two countries before arms and mercenaries, fuel and aamunition, but these accusations were denied by Algeria, which confirmed confirmed at the time that, “it stands at a distance between the two sides”, confirming its commitment to ‭the position of the ‭African Union, which is refusing the interfere ‭in the ‭Libyan matters, with frank refusal to any foreign military intervention ‭in the ‭region. ‬