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Libya: Gaddafi faces final battle as fighting erupts in Tripoli
Could it be!
Could Wacky Qadaffi finally be going, going, gone?
Fighting Erupts in Tripoli
Charles Levinson
AUGUST 20, 2011, 7:27 P.M. ET
Gunfire, Explosions Rattle Tripoli as Rebels Advance - WSJ.com
Libya: Gaddafi faces final battle as fighting erupts in Tripoli
Fighting has erupted in Tripoli after rebels closed in on the Libyan capital, raising hopes among his opponents that Muammar Gaddafi’s regime is finally on the brink of Collapse.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...nal-battle-as-fighting-erupts-in-Tripoli.html
By Nick Meo, In Zintan, Libya
12:03AM BST 21 Aug 2011
Could it be!
Could Wacky Qadaffi finally be going, going, gone?
Fighting Erupts in Tripoli
Charles Levinson
AUGUST 20, 2011, 7:27 P.M. ET
Gunfire, Explosions Rattle Tripoli as Rebels Advance - WSJ.com
ZAWIYA, Libya -- Fierce street fights broke out in several neighborhoods of Tripoli on Saturday night, according to Tripoli residents and rebel fighters, as rebels inside the capital took to the streets and clashed with heavily armed government forces.
After six months of war, it appeared that the climactic final battle for control of the capital of two million residents, had at last begun. After over four decades in power, Col. Moammar Gadhafi's rule teetered on the brink of collapse just 12 days shy of the 42nd anniversary of his coming to power on September 1, 1969.
As reports poured in to rebel-held areas of Libya of Tripoli's budding uprising, Libyans poured into the streets to celebrate. In Zawiya, the coastal city 30 miles west of Tripoli which rebels cleared of Mr. Gadhafi's fighters on Friday night, jubilant residents paraded through the streets, honking car horns, screeching tires, and firing celebratory gunfire into the air.
In Benghazi, the rebels' de facto capital in eastern Libya and the city where the uprising against Col. Gadhafi's rule first began on Feb. 17, thousands of people poured into the seaside courthouse square.
Residents tracked Tripoli's developments minute-by-minute by phone calls from friends in the capital, and by news reports on Al Jazeera and the rebel controlled news network Libya Ahrar. Cellular phone networks in Libya were overloaded by the traffic.
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Libya: Gaddafi faces final battle as fighting erupts in Tripoli
Fighting has erupted in Tripoli after rebels closed in on the Libyan capital, raising hopes among his opponents that Muammar Gaddafi’s regime is finally on the brink of Collapse.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...nal-battle-as-fighting-erupts-in-Tripoli.html
By Nick Meo, In Zintan, Libya
12:03AM BST 21 Aug 2011
Gunfire, anti-aircraft fire and explosions rang out across the city on Saturday night as rebel commanders hailed the start of an attack on the dictator’s final stronghold.
Residents reported fighting in several neighbourhoods and said rebels were in the streets, although the Libyan government insisted the capital was “safe and stable”.
Jumma Ibrahim, a rebel spokesman, said: “The revolution from inside Tripoli has officially started in many parts...of Tripoli, and is expected to spread to all of Tripoli.”
Colonel Fadlallah Haroun, a rebel military commander in Benghazi, claimed the fighting marked the beginning of an assault on the capital coordinated with NATO forces.
Col Haroun said that weapons were assembled and sent by tugboats to Tripoli on Friday night.
But perhaps be measured in our exuberance as a headless Libya would be a pretty complicated situation.
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