A CREEPY network of tunnels down which Colonel Gaddafi is thought to have fled justice on a golf buggy was revealed to the world yesterday. The beaten Libyan dictator's secret bolthole, buried beneath his palace, was discovered as jubilant freedom fighters stormed into the capital Tripoli.
Last night there were reports evil Gaddafi had been cornered in an apartment block.
Rebels believe he raced away through the underground labyrinth hours before they overran his sprawling compound. One of the golf buggies was found smashed against a wall of the tunnel system � which is said to have secret exits all over Tripoli.
The tyrant would have entered through a hatch, which amazed rebels found and prised open. The vast maze of concrete corridors is thought have housed an Olympic-sized swimming pool and a garage full of luxury motors.
Bunkers with banks of telephones used by Gaddafi to direct war against his people were found yesterday.
One large room held dozens of notebooks and shelves of computer hard drives. Weapons and Russian-made body armour were strewn about.
Weirdly, photo albums filled with snaps of former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice were also found in Gaddafi's Bab-al-Aziziya complex.
She has visited Tripoli. And in 2007 obsessional Mad Dog raved: "I support my darling black African woman. Leezza, Leezza, Leezza � I love her very much." More than 1,000 rebels surrounded a cluster of ten apartment buildings not far from Gaddafi's Tripoli HQ yesterday.
The fighters believed he was inside with some of his sons but this could not be confirmed. There were intense exchanges of gunfire with supporters of Gaddafi.
Three of the buildings � believed to be protected by a tank � were blazing last night.
Rebel fighter Muhammad Gomaa said: "They are together. They are in a small hole. Today we finish."
But, even as the net appeared to tighten on the fugitive ex-leader, he made a speech urging Libyans to "purge" the country of "rats, crusaders and unbelievers". Crazed Gaddafi, driven from power after 42 years in a six-month civil war, launched a bloodthirsty rant against Nato in an audio recording broadcast on loyalist TV.
He urged the country's tribes to "stop the enemy setting its foot on this pure land". He demanded: "Do not leave Tripoli to those rats � kill them, defeat them quickly." And he called on Muslim clergy: "Incite the people to jihad. Nato is retreating."
Gaddafi's spokesman Moussa Ibrahim claimed he was "safe and healthy" and still in Libya.
There was still a �1million bounty on offer for taking him dead or alive. Tripoli was almost totally under rebel control last night but pockets of resistance remained, with loyalist snipers firing from rooftops. Frontline streets were strewn with bodies.
Rebels were aiming to take Gaddafi's home city of Sirte, 250 miles east of the capital. Leaders said they were trying to negotiate a peaceful surrender there. Fighting was also raging outside Bin Jawad, 400 miles south of Tripoli, after Gaddafi loyalists ambushed rebels and killed 20.
Meanwhile, world leaders were desperately trying to release billions in frozen Libyan assets so vital medical supplies and fresh water can reach the country.
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