•Gaddafi in hiding
Muammar Gaddafi is a hunted man as forces loyal to him continue to make their final stand in the streets of Tripoli.
Ulf Laessing and Missy Ryan, Reuters
August 23, 2011, 4:58 am
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi was a hunted man on Monday as loyal remnants of his forces made last-ditch stands in the capital and world leaders rushed to embrace the fractious rebel movement as new masters of Libya's oil riches.
Two days after their irregular armies launched pincer thrusts into Tripoli in tandem with an uprising in the city, Gaddafi's tanks and sharpshooters appeared to hold only small areas, including his Bab al-Aziziya headquarters compound.
Civilians, who mobbed the streets on Sunday to cheer the end of dictatorship, stayed indoors as machinegun fire and explosions punctuated some of the heaviest fighting of the Arab Spring uprisings that have been reshaping the Middle East.
Reuters correspondents witnessed firefights and a clash with heavy weapons, including anti-aircraft guns, as rebels tried to flush out snipers and pockets of resistance. Hundreds appear to have been killed or wounded since Saturday.
Gaddafi's whereabouts were not known after rebels said they held three of his sons, including heir apparent Seif al-Islam.
Al-Jazeera later said one of the other two captured sons, Mohammed, had managed to escape but that the body of a fourth, military commander Khamis, might have been found along with that of Gaddafi's intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi.
The station, based in Qatar whose rulers have provided the most visible Arab support to the rebels, cited unnamed sources.
In a last, defiant, audio broadcast on Sunday before state television went off the air, he said he was still in Tripoli, and would stay "until the end". There has been speculation he might seek refuge in his home region around Sirte, or abroad.
A U.S. official said there was no evidence he had fled the country. He has few friends left. His prime minister turned up in Tunisia. More Libyan embassies hoisted the rebel flag. And foreign governments which had hesitated to take sides, among them Gaddafi's Arab neighbours, Russia and China made clear they now felt his 42 years of absolute power were over.
Western powers who have deployed air power in support of a variety of rebel groups, urged the 69-year-old "Brother Leader" to halt the bloodshed after six months of civil war that ebbed and flowed over hundreds of miles of North African desert.
U.S. President Barack Obama said: "Muammar Gaddafi and his regime need to recognise that their rule has come to an end."
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who took an early gamble on the Libyan rebels, called on Gaddafi loyalists "to turn their back on the criminal and cynical blindness of their leader by immediately ceasing fire, giving up their arms and turning themselves in to the legitimate Libyan authorities".
Egypt, still grappling with the fall of its own autocrat, abandoned its caution and recognised the rebel government. Other beleaguered Arab revolutionaries, notably in Syria, may take heart from a hard-fought triumph in the sands of Libya.
After Gaddafi, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must be "the most miserable person on earth", said Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a political scientist in the United Arab Emirates: "Gaddafi's fall," he said, "will also inspire the Syrian people."
SONS DETAINED
Among those detained was Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the face of his father's rapprochement with the West over the past decade but now indicted with his father for crimes against humanity. The International Criminal Court said it hoped to question him at The Hague, though a rebel official said Libya might try him.
A rebel official in the eastern city of Benghazi, seat of the opposition National Transitional Council, said some of its representatives had slipped in to Tripoli in recent days to make contact with authorities hitherto loyal to Gaddafi with the aim of averting a breakdown of order in the capital.
Shamsiddin Abdulmolah said would-be defectors had been persuaded in recent weeks to stay in their jobs in Tripoli to help run the city. "Each neighbourhood has its own little council and today they've taken over administration including military affairs and security," he said.
There have been concerns that tribal, ethnic and other divisions among the diverse armed groups opposed to Gaddafi could lead to the kind of blood-letting seen in Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. However, the presence of former Gaddafi aides in the rebel camp is cited by some as cause to hope the opposition can prove more inclusive than that in Iraq.
NTC head Mustafa Abdel Jalil, who was Gaddafi's justice minister until joining the revolt in February, told a news conference in Benghazi: "I call on all Libyans to exercise self-restraint and to respect the property and lives of others and not to resort to taking the law into their own hands."
Western leaders reiterated their refusal to commit military forces to peacekeeping in Libya, though some governments have had civilian advisers in Benghazi for months, and the swift military advance over the weekend renewed speculation about the shadowy role of foreign special forces on the ground.
Costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have ensured leaders fight shy of another conflict, although Obama, Sarkozy and others can expect a boost in prestige from the fall of Gaddafi.
Obama, due to speak shortly, had not changed his opposition to putting U.S. "boots on the ground" in Libya, an aide said.
COMPETITION FOR OIL
Jalil said the National Council would favour foreign countries that had supported the rebellion -- a potential blow to the likes of Chinese and Russian oil companies, though they are not the only ones to have cut deals with Gaddafi.
Western governments had competed for the veteran ruler's favour in recent years after negotiating a grudging resolution to decades of conflict, during which Gaddafi's "anti-colonial" campaigns saw him support a range of armed groups from the Palestinians to the IRA and take responsibility for the downing of an American airliner over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988.
First signs emerged of moves to begin restoring oil production that has been the foundation of the economy and a source of hope for Libya's six million, mostly poor, people. Staff from Italy's Eni arrived to look into restarting facilities, said Foreign Minister Franco Frattini. [nWEA1411]
Italy, Libya's nearest European neighbour and the colonial power until World War Two, is a big customer for Libyan energy. But it will face stiff competition from others seeking a share of Libya's wealth -- a competition some fear could test the ability of untried rebel leaders to hold the country together.
A rebel official in the east said government forces had withdrawn on Monday from the key Mediterranean oil port of Brega, between Benghazi and Tripoli.
Civilians had flocked late on Sunday to Tripoli's Green Square, long the showpiece of Gaddafi's personality cult, waving rebel flags. Some said they renamed it Martyrs' Square.
Young men burnt the green flags of the government and raised the rebel tricolour used by the post-colonial monarchy which Gaddafi overthrew in a military coup in 1969.
But on Monday, a Reuters correspondent with rebels moving in from the west watched commanders of the irregular force try to hold their men back from rushing ahead in the city, insisting they check buildings methodically for snipers.
It was slow work and there will little sign of coordination between rebel units. The all-green flags of the Gaddafi government were still hanging in many streets -- an indication that rebels did not feel safe enough to rip them down.
"Revolutionaries are positioned everywhere in Tripoli," said a rebel commander who used the name Abdulrahman. "But Gaddafi's forces have been trying to resist ... Snipers are the main problem ... There is a big number of martyrs."
A government official told Reuters 376 people on both sides were killed, and about 1,000 wounded, though it was unclear how the figures were arrived at.
At the Rixos Nasr hotel, where the government had obliged foreign reporters to stay throughout the war, pro-Gaddafi guards prevented journalists from leaving.
Only five months ago, Gaddafi forces were set to crush the rebel stronghold of Benghazi. He warned then that there would be "no mercy, no pity" for his opponents.
His forces, he said, would hunt them down "district to district, alley to alley, house to house, room to room". It is a refrain some rebels have thrown back at him in recent days.
(Reporting by Missy Ryan and Ulf Laessing in Tripoli, Michael Georgy and Peter Graff in western Libya, Robert Birsel in Benghazi, Libya, William Maclean in London, Hamid Ould Ahmed and Christian Lowe in Algiers, Souhail Karam in Rabat, Richard Valdmanis and Giles Elgood in Tunis, Laura MacInnis and Alister Bull in Oak Bluffs, Mass., and Michael Roddy and Keith Weir in London,; Writing by Alastair Macdonald, editing by Peter Millership)
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Gillard and her cabinet of closet munchers should be in hiding as well...
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Các anh chị nghĩ thế nào, có ý kiến, phê bình gì qua bài viết "GADDAFI HUNTED AS LOYALISTS FIGHT ON IN TRIPOLI" và "1 COMMENT" của một độc giả ?
Ở những quốc gia tự do dân chủ, người dân có quyền bày tỏ suy nghĩ, ý kiến, quan điểm của họ một cách thẳng thắn, thỏai mái và họ có thể phê bình, chỉ trích giới lãnh đạo nếu những người đứng đầu quốc gia làm sai hay làm không đúng, hay làm chưa đúng vân vân...
Ngược lại ở những đất nước mà người dân BỊ TRỊ bởi những tên cầm quyền ĐỘC TÀI TÀN BẠO KHÁT MÁU ... thì ngườI dân BỊ TƯỚC ĐỌAT tất cả QUYỀN LÀM NGƯỜI, BỊ GIẾT, BỊ TÙ ĐÀY, BỊ HÀNH HẠ, BỊ ÁP BỨC, BỊ BỊT MIỆNG, BỊ BỎ ĐÓI, BỊ CHÀ ĐẠP, BỊ BÓP CỔ, BỊ đối xử như những con vật như ở Bắc Phi và Trung Đông như Tunisia, Ai Cập, Syria, Yemen, Libya và người dân những nước này đã ĐỨNG LÊN, người dân đã ĐỒNG LỌAT XUỐNG ĐƯỜNG, đã ĐỐT lên NGỌN LỬA CÁCH MẠNG LẬT ĐỔ bè lũ cầm quyền bạo ác và NGỌN LỬA này đã và đang BỪNG CHÁY trên tòan thế giới ... và nay NGỌN LỬA đó đã và đang "thiêu rụi" sự "cầm quyền", đạp đổ "ngai vàng" những tên ĐỘC tài sát nhân Ben Ali, Mubarak, và bây giờ là Gadhafi, và những tên cầm quyền độc tài này phải kết cuộc trong Ô NHỤC .
Và cả thế giới đã và đang hướng về LIBYA, đã và đang nhìn thấy sau 42 năm ngồi trên ngai vàng, nay Gadhafi đang trốn như 1 con chuột một cách NHỤC NHÃ.
Còn nữa, những nước hiện nay vẫn còn ôm "đồ phế thải của nhân lọai" là cái "chủ nghĩa" đáng GHÊ TỞM BẨN THỈU cộng sản đặt lên đầu, trong đó có tàu cộng hán bự, bắc hàn, "cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa" Việt Nam thì bè lũ cầm quyền lại càng độc tài, tàn bạo khủng khiếp hơn cả Bắc Phi và Trung Đông nhiều lần hơn và dân của các nước này đã và đang CHẾT trong thầm lặng, bị bè lũ cầm quyền GIẾT một cách tinh vi mà không ai biết là bao nhiêu triệu người.
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