NIGERIAN-led Ecomog intervention troops had Sierra Leonean rebels encircled in Freetown early on Thursday, depriving them of any way out of a battered city. Units of Ecomog soldiers, who have since Sunday made progress on fronts between Hastings and Waterloo on the Freetown peninsula, linked up late on Wednesday and trapped the rebels, military sources said.Ecomog will now shell remaining rebel positions before Sierra Leone’s own fearsome Kamajor tribal warriors move in against the renegades, sources say. Meanwhile, a semblance of normality has emerged in western Freetown, where buses and cars were on the streets as Ecomog troops carried out searches.