Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence documents show ties with CIA

The CIA worked closely with Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence services in the rendition of terror suspects to Libya for interrogation, according to documents, cooperation that could spark tensions between Washington and Libya's new rulers.

The CIA was among a number of foreign intelligence services that worked with Libya's agencies, according to documents found at a Libyan security agency building in Tripoli and seen by the AP yesterday.

The discovery came as the Libyan rebels said they would surround pro-Gaddafi cities until the Sept 10 deadline for their surrender.

Trying to "to avoid bloodshed and to avoid more destruction to public properties and national institutions, we have given an ultimatum of one week to the areas of Sirte, Bani Walid, Jufra and Sabha," the head of the rebels' National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, told reporters in Benghazi.

"It is an opportunity for these cities to peacefully join the revolution," he said, adding the rebels were providing humanitarian aid to the besieged areas along with water and electricity services.

The intelligence documents found in Tripoli, meanwhile, provided new details on the ties between Western countries and Gaddafi's regime. Many of those same countries backed the NATO attacks that helped Libya's rebels force Gaddafi from power.