•Rebels surge into Tripoli
Jubilant Libyan rebel fighters have taken Tripoli's central Green Square as crowds take to the streets to celebrate.
Missy Ryan, Reuters
August 22, 2011, 8:00 am
.Rebels surge into Tripoli
Libya's rebels have captured Muammar Gaddafi's son as the ruler's presidential guard surrenders, reports say.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Jubilant rebel fighters streamed into the heart of Tripoli as Muammar Gaddafi's forces collapsed and crowds took to the streets to celebrate, tearing down posters of the Libyan leader.
Rebels waving opposition flags and firing into the air drove into Green Square, a symbolic location which the government had until recently used for mass demonstrations in support of the now embattled Gaddafi.
Earlier, a convoy of rebels entered a western neighbourhood of the city. Rebels said the whole of the city was under their control except Gaddafi's Bab Al-Aziziyah stronghold, according to al-Jazeera Television.
Remaining defiant, Gaddafi earlier had made two audio addresses over state television calling on Libyans to fight off the rebels.
"I am afraid if we don't act, they will burn Tripoli," he said. "There will be no more water, food, electricity or freedom."
But resistance to the rebels appeared to have largely faded away, allowing the rebels and their supporters to demonstrate in Green Square.
Televised images showed Libyans kneeling and kissing the ground of Tripoli in gratitude for what some called a "blessed day."
Gaddafi, a colourful and often brutal autocrat who has ruled Libya for more than 40 years, said he was breaking out weapons stores to arm the population. His spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, predicted a violent reckoning by the rebels.
"A massacre will be committed inside Tripoli if one side wins now, because the rebels have come with such hatred, such vendetta...Even if the leader leaves or steps down now, there will be a massacre."
NATO, which has backed the rebels with a bombing campaign, said the transition of power in Libya must be peaceful.
After a six-month civil war, the fall of Tripoli came quickly, with a carefully orchestrated uprising launched on Saturday night to coincide with the advance of rebel troops on three fronts. Fighting broke out after the call to prayer from the minarets of the mosques.
Rebel National Transitional Council Coordinator Adel Dabbechi confirmed that Gaddafi's younger son Saif Al-Islam had been captured. His eldest son Mohammed Al-Gaddafi had surrendered to rebel forces, he told Reuters.
Only five months ago Gaddafi's forces were set to crush the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, the leader warning then that there would be "no mercy, no pity" for his opponents. His forces, he said, would hunt them down "district to district, street to street, house to house, room to room."
The United Nations then acted quickly, clearing the way for creation of a no-fly zone that NATO, with a campaign of bombing, used ultimately to help drive back Gaddafi's forces.
"It's over. Gaddafi's finished," said Saad Djebbar, former legal adviser to the Libyan government.
Al Jazeera television aired images of people celebrating in central Tripoli and tearing down posters of Gaddafi, which had dominated Libyan cities for decades.
In Benghazi in the east, thousands gathered in a city-centre square waving red, black and green opposition flag as news filtered through of rebel advances into Tripoli.
"It's over!" shouted one man as he dashed out of a building, a mobile telephone clutched to his ear. Celebratory gunfire and explosions rang out over the city and cars blaring their horns crowded onto the streets. Overhead, red tracer bullets darted into a black sky.
"It does look like it is coming to an end," said Anthony Skinner, Middle East analyst, Maplecroft. "But there are still plenty of questions. The most important is exactly what Gaddafi does now. Does he flee or can he fight?"
"In the slightly longer term, what happens next? We know there have been some serious divisions between the rebel movement and we don't know yet if they will be able to form a cohesive front to run the country."
Gaddafi, in his second audio broadcast in 24 hours, dismissed the rebels as rats.
"I am giving the order to open the weapons stockpiles," Gaddafi said. "I call on all Libyans to join this fight. Those who are afraid, give your weapons to your mothers or sisters.
"Go out, I am with you until the end. I am in Tripoli. We will ... win."
A Libyan government official told Reuters that 376 people on both sides of the conflict were killed in fighting overnight on Saturday in Tripoli, with about 1,000 others wounded.
A diplomatic source in Paris, where the government has closely backed the rebels, said underground rebel cells in the capital had been following detailed plans drawn up months ago and had been waiting for a signal to act.
That signal was "iftar" -- the moment when Muslims observing the holy months of Ramadan break their daily fast. It was at this moment that imams started broadcasting their message from the mosques, residents said.
(Additional reporting by Missy Ryan in Tripoli, Robert Birsel in Benghazi, Libya, William Maclean in London, Hamid Ould Ahmed in Algiers; Writing by Christian Lowe, Richard Valdmanis and Giles Elgood; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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21 COMMENTS
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Jino A
2 hours, 59 minutes ago
Oh good. The morally questionable dictator is out of power. Now NATO can set up a puppet government which is twice as bad.
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Anthony (joseph) William
2 hours, 56 minutes ago
Can a fractionated bunch of rebels form a stable Government....
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matt
2 hours, 49 minutes ago
"The war will be over by Christmas" "No new Vietnam" Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blah, blah, blah. Just let us know when it's over, yeah?
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Lord Ian of Glencoe
2 hours, 44 minutes ago
This is what we should be doing with Gillard ! Up the revolution !!
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Rollins
2 hours, 23 minutes ago
Now lets work on the Arabs in australia!
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Roberto
2 hours, 16 minutes ago
are they really shooting the enemy or just shooting the air for picture taking?...
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vazz
2 hours, 14 minutes ago
Tribes jostling for power, it makes you wonder if there can ever be peace as long as there is strong tribal affiliations in Libya. King Idris favoured the Cyrenaica tribe at the expense of the other tribes. When Gaddafi overthrew the King, he took away power from the tribes in Cyrenaica and placed the all the power with his tribes in Tripolitania. Libyans belonging to oppressed classes and tribes are now fighting back for the power that was once theirs.
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Russell's
2 hours, 3 minutes ago
They are all completely mad, it isn't going to matter much who is in power... However whilst they are killing each other, they are leaving us alone...
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James
1 hour, 44 minutes ago
Very true :) fractionised tribes donot start a stable government but we are mostly talking about women and children as the victims rather than the men
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