Libya rebels reject AU truce, say Gaddafi must go

BENGHAZI, April 11 (AFP): Libyan rebel leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil on Monday rejected an African Union initiative for a ceasefire with the forces of Moamer Gaddafi and demanded the ouster of the veteran strongman. "This (African Union) initiative has now been surpassed. From the first day the demand of our people has been the ouster of Gaddafi and the fall of his regime," Abdul Jalil said at a news conference in rebel-held Benghazi. "Gaddafi and his sons must leave immediately if they want to be safe... Any initiative that does not include the people's demand, the popular demand, essential demand, we cannot possibly recognise." Abdul Jalil refused any kind of mediation which would allow Kadhafi to stay and lashed out at the strongman.