It looks like 'the most wanted' is still having the dice rolled for him - with Libya threatening to up the stakes as in days of old on the Libyan-Chad frontier:

Dakar - Chadian rebels holding the Sahara's most-wanted terror suspect said on Thursday that Libya had given them a 48-hour deadline to surrender him - or the Libyans would bomb them.

There was no immediate comment from Libya, which had confirmed that its forces had killed two of terror suspect Amari Saifi's accomplices.

Saifi, the only surviving leader of Algeria's al-Qaeda-allied Salafist Group for Call and Combat, was captured by Chad rebels. Months of negotiations have failed to obtain his surrender to Algeria, other African nations or the West.

Diplomats accuse the Chad rebels of shopping the terror suspect from country to country in search of financial rewards.

On Thursday, Chad rebels received a satellite phone call from two Libyan officials giving them a 48-hour deadline to surrender Saifi.

"At the end of 48 hours, they're going to bomb us in a way we've never been bombed," rebel spokesperson Brahim Tchouma said.

Saifi is wanted for the killing of 42 Algerian soldiers and kidnapping of 32 European tourists, both last year.

Germany has an arrest warrant out for him for the kidnappings, which saw one captive German woman die of apparent heatstroke.

Algerian forces killed the Salafist's top leader and several others late last month. - Sapa

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