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"Misurata is free, the rebels have won. Of Gaddafi's forces, some are killed and others are running away," Gemal Salem, a pro-democracy spokesman, told Reuters by telephone.

But before leaving, Gaddafi forces booby trapped bodies, homes and cars. The traps killed 15 and wounded dozens more.

"One man was opening his fridge when he went to his house after the Gaddafi forces left it this morning and it blew up in his face," Salem said. "Bodies the same. When the rebels are trying to lift a body it blows up."

On Friday, the government announced it would pull out of Misurata, the country's third largest city.

"The situation in Misrata ...will be dealt with by the tribes around Misrata, and Misrata's residents and not by the Libyan army," Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim said.

The New York Times reports:

Even if the government follows through with the plan it laid out publicly on Friday, it remained far from clear whether the tribes would take up the fight and to what extent the army was forced out militarily by the rebels or whether it was temporarily diverted to the Tunisian border, where the rebels seized a strategic crossing last week and fighting has surged in recent days.

Libya’s deputy foreign minister, Khaled Kaim, said Friday that the army had been given an ultimatum to put down the rebellion in Misurata, or to withdraw and leave the battle to tribal fighters. Mr. Kaim said the tribes would either negotiate a settlement with the rebels, or fight them instead of the military.

Also on Saturday, the U.S. confirmed that it carried out its first Predator missile strike, though no details of the strike's target were given.