The eastern rebels have advanced as far as Bin Jawwad on the coastal road west of Brega (Burayqah).
And they aren't in a mood to treat loyalists as welcome defectors. Now they are criminals who must surrender and face punishment:
The rebels dismissed Gadhafi's proposal, relayed by Ibrahim by phone, to have his son al-Saadi lead talks on a transitional government as delusional.
"I would like to state very clearly, we don't recognize them. We are looking at them as criminals. We are going to arrest them very soon," Mahmoud Shammam, the information minister in the rebels' transitional government, told a news conference. "Talking about negotiations is a daydream for what remains of the dictatorship."
Khaddafi should have cut a deal much earlier.
