The ruse, dubbed “Operation C.W. Marketing” resulted in the arrest of more than 100 fugitives, according to a release from the sheriff’s office. Those arrested ranged in age from 19 to 66 years old and were wanted for violent felonies, unpaid child support, traffic offenses and other charges.

During the two-week operation, fugitives were invited to a Cook County warehouse to test various electronic devices, which they believed they could keep after completing a survey, according to the release.

Among those arrested included a fugitive who took a bus from Wisconsin and a man who sprinted several blocks to waiting authorities because he was late for the appointment, the release said.

More than 45,000 fugitives are wanted in Cook County, the release said. Officials have used fugitives’ last known addresses to try to lure them into other recent operations as well, some of which included promises of holiday shopping certificates or a refund of owed federal stimulus money.

Anonymous tips based on fugitive information the sheriff’s office posted online have also led to dozens of arrests and tips on other criminal activities, according to the release.

Sheriff Tom Dart held a press conference on Tuesday to speak about the operation.

“We seek a state of law and prosperity,” said Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the interim head of the anti-Gadhafi forces’ National Transitional Council. The interim government has been recognized by scores of other countries as Libya’s new governing authority.

“To anyone who harmed the Libyan people in any way,” he intoned, “we need the courts… the judicial system… to decide.” With that there were more fireworks, a crescendo of shouted acclamation.

Unfortunately, no one, including Abdul Jalil, has proclaimed a “declaration of liberation.” The civil war isn’t over, and  won’t be over until one question on the minds of all Libyans is answered: “Where is Gadhafi?”

On the hunt
A half mile from Martyrs’ Square where Jalil was speaking, a quiet man in a neat charcoal grey suit sighed at the question. “Psychologically,” said Hisham Buhagiar, ”It is hard to believe that Libya is free.  I look over my shoulder when I call people on the phone, and wonder if the phone is tapped. We still talk in codes…”

A carpet salesman by trade, there are colorful rugs hanging on the walls of his modest office and sample swatches in the entranceway of the nondescript building, Buhagiar has spent almost his entire adulthood in a secret group fostering opposition to Gadhafi and planning his ouster.

When the war started on Feb. 17 his group came out of the shadows and took up arms – they had trained for it over the years, Buhagiar said, in clandestine trips to weapons camps outside Libya. Buhagiar had been a soldier in four battles during the war earlier this year, suffering gunshot wounds to both legs along the way. Now he’s no longer a soldier, but has a different task:  He’s the man leading the hunt for Gadhafi himself.

I think we are close enough to get him, perhaps in 10 days or so.  I really mean it.” But by “close enough,” Buhagiar concedes it means an area of some 150 square miles in the southern Sahara around the town of Sabha, near the border of landlocked Niger.

Buhagiar’s team is made up of around 60 hunters – but there’s no catchy name for the unit or for their mission, nothing like “Operation No More Moammar.” The team relies on both technology and “human assets,” people on the ground in the southern desert enclaves whose reported sightings of Gadhafi’s large contingent match the chatter they’ve picked up through cellphone triangulation.

“But we don’t have the technology to track satellite phone conversations,” he said, saying carefully that “we have help with that” from other countries. From the U.S.? Great Britain? NATO countries? He nodded in general assent, but said nothing more on the subject.

“The guy has a lot of money, a lot of power,” Buhagiar said of his nemesis. “He can hide. Libya is a big country, there’s a vast desert with a lot of different tribes. Believe me, that’s his neighborhood…That’s where he grew up, it’s home for him. And he’s been paying his people a lot of money.”

Excerpts for this blog story came from:  http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/13/7743955-carpet-salesman-leads-hunt-for-gadhafi

Story Written By: Mike Taibbi, NBC News Correspondent

4 decades later, the FBI believes they may have found a lead to who the man is. Dubbed as D.B Cooper, the hijacker left behind magazines which were examined for fingerprints.

“Yes, there is a lead in this matter that’s being pursued,” Gutt told Reuters. “It’s someone who surfaced who hasn’t surfaced before. It came from someone who’s close to someone who is deceased. So far, we haven’t been able to dismiss it.”

The informant gave the FBI an item to be examined for fingerprints that could then be compared to partial prints left on a magazine on the plane and parts of the airliner itself.

Gutt added that “we’re seeking to compare prints and finding stuff that can add more solid evidence. We have to wait. We’re still recovering some additional items. It’s a process, and it’s not a priority matter.”

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Before his arrest, Burgos posted messages via Facebook such as “Catch me if you can, I’m in Brooklyn,” and he even posted a video of him walking into an unidentified NYPD stationhouse.

There’s no explanation as to what Burgos’ motivation was and whether he genuinely believed that he could continue with his online antics without getting caught eventually. All Utica police sergeant Steve Hauck had to say about the incident is that “He told us via Facebook to come and get him and we did.”

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