The Algerian foreign minister said Moammar Kadafi's wife and three of his children escaped to Algeria early Monday, according to Sky News.

The rebels' government, the Transitional National Council, which is in the process of forming an administration to run the country, has called sheltering Kadafi's family members an "act of aggression."

"We are warning anybody not to shelter Kadafi and his sons. We are going after them in any place to find them and arrest them," said Mahmoud Shamman, an NTC spokesman.

Officials with the NTC said they would seek the extradition of Kadafi's wife Safiya, daughter Aisha and sons Mohammed and Hannibal.

At the British Foreign Office, staff told Sky News they were aware of the situation, which they said was "a matter for the NTC."

Hannibal Kadafi, 35, earned his MBA from Copenhagen Business School and worked as a consultant to the management committee of Libya's General National Maritime Transport Co.

Khamis Kadafi, the youngest son of longtime Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, has been killed in a NATO airstrike, Sky News reported.

The British network said a man claiming to be Khamis Kadafi’s bodyguard said the younger Kadafi was in a Toyota Land Cruiser that was hit by a missile fired from a NATO Apache helicopter. A rebel official told the network that they were close to confirming that Khamis Kadafi died Saturday during fighting with rebels near Tarhuna, about 50 miles southeast of Tripoli.

Khamis Kadafi, a Russian-trained military officer, commanded an elite battalion dedicated to protecting his father.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a "smooth transition" in Libya during a speech  Friday in New York.

"That transition must be grounded in inclusiveness, reconciliation and national unity  under a new government that can effectively deliver on the Libyan people's aspirations for democracy, freedom and growing social and economic prosperity," he said. "There is an urgent need to put an end to the conflict and restore order and stability."

Questions have emerged in recent days about whether the new rebel government, the Transitional National Council, is prepared to police the country.

"If the Libyan authorities request, we should be prepared to help develop police capacity, bearing in mind that the country is awash with small arms," Ban said.

Among those responding to the conflict in Libya has been Doctors Without Borders, the international medical volunteer group. The Times spoke Friday with Michael Bates, the group's head of mission for Libya and Tunisia, from his base in Zarzis, Tunisia, about 270 miles from the Libyan border.

Q: Your group has about 70 people working in Libya, including medical teams in Tripoli, Benghazi, Zintan, Yefren and Zawiya. What were conditions like there Friday?

A: Over the last few days, the number of patients coming through has slowed down.

The majority of the wounds we have been seeing are gunshots. We’re not seeing any shrapnel wounds anymore.

Q: Have you heard anything about reported revenge killings?

A: We can’t see it in patients or from interviewing patients.

We were concerned about the number of civilian casualties a few days ago. We heard a large number had been hit by snipers, which is unacceptable for either side to partake in. It’s completely against all rules for civilians in a combat zone. More care has to be given to civilians, including medical personnel in the combat zone to give them free passage to enter the hospitals.

Q: Is it difficult to define who is a civilian in this conflict between rebels and Kadafi loyalists?

A: When you're receiving children and women, it’s pretty clear they are civilians.

Q: What else are you concerned about now?

A: There are still some insecure areas. We do have concerns that patients may have trouble in some areas reaching health facilities.

Libyan opposition supporters have apparently been bringing their families over to the luxurious Tripoli home of Moammar Kadafi's daughter, Aisha. Among other things, they come to take a dip in the pool.

The video could not be independently verified. However, note the:

-- Kadafi poster-turned doormat;

-- Apparent cannonball contest underway in the deep end;

-- Gold bench rally/photo op (reminiscent of photos taken after troops seized Saddam Hussein's palaces);

-- Hot tub tour.

NATO and rebel forces attacked holdout forces loyal to Moammar Kadafi in the capital and Kadafi's hometown of Surt to the east on Friday.

British warplanes pounded a “large headquarters bunker" overnight in Surt, British Defense Ministry officials told CNN on Friday. Tornado aircraft also fired precision-guided missiles into the city, which lies on Libya's central coast.

More than 200 decomposing bodies were discovered at an abandoned Tripoli hospital Friday, the BBC reported.

A BBC correspondent found the bodies of men, women and children on beds and in the corridors of a hospital in the Abu Salim district of the capital. He said doctors and nurses fled the facility after clashes erupted nearby between rebel forces and those loyal to Moammar Kadafi.

Leaders of the Libyan rebel Transitional National Council held a news conference in Tripoli on Thursday, with video posted online.

A Libyan rebel government Cabinet minister said the Transitional National Council leadership plans to immediately move to Tripoli from Benghazi, the Associated Press reported.

Meanwhile, the AP also reported that the United States and South Africa reached a deal Thursday that will release $1.5 billion in frozen Libyan assets in American banks, which the U.S. is earmarking for the cash-strapped rebels fighting to oust Moammar Kadafi.

South Africa had blocked agreement in the Security Council committee monitoring sanctions against Libya on unfreezing the money because officials thought it implied recognition of the Transitional National Council. The rebel government has yet to be recognized by South Africa, the African Union or the United Nations.

Mark Kornblau, spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations, said the U.S. never intended for  its request to unfreeze the Libyan assets to imply recognition of any government. He said the wording has been changed to say the money will go to “relevant authorities”  and the U.S. will earmark the $1.5 billion for the Transitional National Council.

U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice welcomed the decision to release the money “to meet the critical humanitarian needs of the Libyan people.”

“Today's action demonstrates the international community's solidarity with the brave people of Libya at this historic moment,” Rice said in a statement.

--Molly Hennessy-Fiske

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Photo: A Libyan rebel fighter yells anti-Kadafi slogans as he celebrates in the street Thursday in Tripoli, Libya. Credit: Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images