President Barack Obama said that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's "rule is over" and that while some uncertainty remained it was clear that "the future of Libya is in the hands of its people".
President Barack Obama delivers a statement on Libya from his vacation on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts Photo: Reuters
By Toby Harnden, Washington
1:40AM BST 23 Aug 2011
In his first appearance since the rebel push towards Tripoli, Mr Obama interrupted his Martha's Vineyard holiday to appeal to Col Gaddafi give himself up and prevent further bloodshed in Libya.
He urged opposition forces to build a democratic government through "peaceful, inclusive and just" measures.
"For over four decades, the Libyan people had lived under the rule of a tyrant who denied them their most basic human rights," he said.
"Now the celebrations that we've seen in the streets of Libya shows that the pursuit of human dignity is far stronger than any dictator."
He stressed that "true justice will not come from reprisals and violence, it will come from reconciliation and a Libya that allows its citizens to determine their own destiny" while promising that the US would "be a friend and a partner" to a new Libyan regime.
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The Pentagon has said that it believes Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has not fled Libya and insists that there will be "no US boots on the ground" as part of any United Nations or Nato mission following the collapse of his regime.
"We do not have information that he's left the country," said Colonel Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman.
The situation was "fluid" and American defence officials were closely monitoring events.
He ruled out the deployment of any US troops as part of a UN or Nato force.
"There will not be US boots on the ground," he said. "If there is going to be some kind of transitional mission that involves any kind of foreign troops, there wouldn't be US ground troops."
The apparent collapse of the Gaddafi regime came at an awkward moment for Mr Obama, who has been lambasted for taking a break in Martha's Vineyard at a time of economic crisis.
The White House had stressed that he would be spending a lot of his time working on a speech about jobs scheduled for the start of September.
Leon Panetta, the new Defence Secretary, was also on holiday. After being briefed on the situation in Libya, he spoke to Mr Obama from California during a teleconference call.
The Pentagon said that American surveillance operations, including the use of Predator drones, over Libya would continue as part of the Nato operation.
He played down suggestions that targeting Gaddafi's forces would be dangerous because of the chaos on the ground.
"We still have a pretty good operational picture of where the forces are arrayed on the battlefield."
Republicans have criticised Mr Obama for his handling of Libya, with some saying he was too cautious and other saying he should have sought congressional authorisation.
In a statement, two of the party's hawks hailed "a victory for the Libyan people and for the broader cause of freedom in the Middle East and throughout the world".
They added: "Americans can be proud of the role our country has played ... but we regret that this success was so long in coming due to the failure of the United States to employ the full weight of our air power."
Mitt Romney, the Republican front-runner in the contest to face Mr Obama in next November's presidential election, called on Libya's Transitional National Council to extradite Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Pan Am 103 bomber released from jail in Scotland on humanitarian ground.
"The world is about to be rid of Muammar Gaddafi, the brutal tyrant who terrorised the Libyan people," he said in a statement.
"It is my hope that Libya will now move toward a representative form of government that supports freedom, human rights, and the rule of law.
"As a first step, I call on this new government to arrest and extradite the mastermind behind the bombing of Pan Am 103, Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi, so justice can finally be done."
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