The rise and fall of Colonel Muamar Gadaffi
The rise and fall of Colonel Muamar Gadaffi
Pascal Mayalla
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J.Mushi, mimi ni miongoni mwa wanaomuunga mkono Ghadafi na kulaani madhalimu mabeberu wa Nato na vibaraka wao, lakini taarifa hizi sasa zinaniogopesha, wakifanikiwa Libya ndio bara lote la Africa lii mikononi mwao, kumbe hata hivi virais vyetu vilivyokaa kimya akiwemo wetu ni vi- puppet tuu!.
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Nakubaliana kabisa kuwa kuangushwa kwa Gaddafi ni a symbolic failure of Afrika.Nina amini history will judge him fairly.
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Naaam Ule Wakati Murua Umetimia Jeshi la Ukombozi Nchini Libya Lilolochoka na Utawala Wakifamilia kama Kwetu,(Rz1,Ndape,Milima n.k)Ukabila na Mateuzi yasiyo na Tija(W.N'ge uleja,Sofi Lion, na wengi mabomu) bila kuangalia Aliyeteuliwa anasifa gani background yake ikoje hajaaribu sehemu n.k(Mawaziri wakurugenzi Wakuu wa mikoa na wilaya) ukitaja hawaishi na wanadunda hadi tunawazika kwa heshima. Libya wamesema No no no nasi Tujifunze. Na Tripolli Wamesema wataubadilisha Jina Utaitwa Green Square
Ufisadi Upendeleo wa hali ya juu ya ukabila hadi waligeuzwa high class na wengine middle class kimaisha(Tanzania Mafisadi na Walala hoi) Kauli Chafu za kutia Kinyaa(Hawezi beba ndoo kujaza Mtera, Kelele za mpita njia haziwezi kumzuia mwenye nyumba kulala, Sasa kina Gaddafi wa Libya Wameshindwa kulala Watoto wa Gadaffi wamekamatwa. Na Hukumu mahakamani watafika na mwishowe ni kunyongwa tu Wamejichumia Ikulu too much dah!
Saa ya Ukombozi Ndio Ishafika na Tukiukosa mwaka huu basi Tena maana Huu ndio unaonekana Mwaka Wa ukombazi kwa nchi zile zilizo kuwa chini ya viongozi madhalumu Nilifurahishwa na Morocco Walipoona Vumbi kali Wakaweka kila kitu Sawa nchi ilatawalika.
Hapa kwetu nini Kinamshinda Rais Wetu kuweka nchi Sawa au Ndio Don't Care my Time has Pass Subirini hadi 2015? We need Good Life sio Matatizo kila kukicha Mali zinaibwa no Action wanyama pesa za wananchi mali mashirika madini viwanja haki za raia (Kuuawa na Polisi) Na polisi wenyewe Posho yao wanadai ni kidogo watu wanakaa kimya ndio kufanya rushwa iendelee! Nitaendelea baadae Kandaa Newss za Ukombozi wa Tanzania Mpya Ujumbe Mzuri Kutoka Libya Kwa Rebels Wameweza.
TUMETHUBUTU TUMEWEZA NA TUNASONGA MBELE!! :John Chiigati
Ufisadi Upendeleo wa hali ya juu ya ukabila hadi waligeuzwa high class na wengine middle class kimaisha(Tanzania Mafisadi na Walala hoi) Kauli Chafu za kutia Kinyaa(Hawezi beba ndoo kujaza Mtera, Kelele za mpita njia haziwezi kumzuia mwenye nyumba kulala, Sasa kina Gaddafi wa Libya Wameshindwa kulala Watoto wa Gadaffi wamekamatwa. Na Hukumu mahakamani watafika na mwishowe ni kunyongwa tu Wamejichumia Ikulu too much dah!
Saa ya Ukombozi Ndio Ishafika na Tukiukosa mwaka huu basi Tena maana Huu ndio unaonekana Mwaka Wa ukombazi kwa nchi zile zilizo kuwa chini ya viongozi madhalumu Nilifurahishwa na Morocco Walipoona Vumbi kali Wakaweka kila kitu Sawa nchi ilatawalika.
Hapa kwetu nini Kinamshinda Rais Wetu kuweka nchi Sawa au Ndio Don't Care my Time has Pass Subirini hadi 2015? We need Good Life sio Matatizo kila kukicha Mali zinaibwa no Action wanyama pesa za wananchi mali mashirika madini viwanja haki za raia (Kuuawa na Polisi) Na polisi wenyewe Posho yao wanadai ni kidogo watu wanakaa kimya ndio kufanya rushwa iendelee! Nitaendelea baadae Kandaa Newss za Ukombozi wa Tanzania Mpya Ujumbe Mzuri Kutoka Libya Kwa Rebels Wameweza.
TUMETHUBUTU TUMEWEZA NA TUNASONGA MBELE!! :John Chiigati
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Libya rebels in Tripoli, Gadhafi defenses collapse 
By BEN HUBBARD - Associated Press,KARIN LAUB - Associated Press | AP 53 mins ago
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) Libyan rebels raced into Tripoli Sunday and met little resistance as Moammar Gadhafi's defenders melted away and his 42-year rule rapidly crumbled. The euphoric fighters celebrated with residents of the capital in Green Square, the symbolic heart of the regime.
Gadhafi's whereabouts were unknown, though state TV broadcast his bitter pleas for Libyans to defend his regime. Opposition fighters captured his son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, who along with his father faces charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands. Another son was in contact with rebels about surrendering, the opposition said.
"It's over, frizz-head," chanted hundreds of jubilant men and women massed in Green Square, using a mocking nickname of the curly-haired Gadhafi. The revelers fired shots in the air, clapped and waved the rebels' tricolor flag. Some set fire to the green flag of Gadhafi's regime and shot holes in a poster with the leader's image.
By the early hours of Monday, rebels controlled large parts of the capital. They set up checkpoints alongside residents many of them secretly armed by rebel smugglers in recent weeks. But pockets of pro-Gadhafi fighters remained: In one area, Associated Press reporters with the rebels were stopped and told to take a different route because of regime snipers nearby.
"We were waiting for the signal and it happened," said Nour Eddin Shatouni, a 50-year-old engineer who was among the residents who flowed out of their homes to join the celebrations. "All mosques chanted 'God is great' all at once. We smelled a good scent, it is the smell of victory. We know it is the time."
The seizure of Green Square held profound symbolic value and marked a stunning turn in the tide of the 6-month-old Libyan civil war. The regime has held pro-Gadhafi rallies there nearly every night since the revolt began in February, and Gadhafi delivered speeches to his loyalists from the historic Red Fort that overlooks the square.
The sweep into the capital came after the rebel fighters advanced 20 miles from the west in a matter of hours. They took town after town and overwhelmed a major military base meant to defend Tripoli, 16 miles from the city. All the way, they met little resistance and residents poured out on the streets to welcome them.
In a series of angry and defiant audio messages broadcast on state television, Gadhafi called on his supporters to march in the streets of the capital and "purify it" of "the rats." He was not shown in the messages.
His defiance raised the possibility of a last-ditch fight over the capital, home to 2 million people. Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim claimed the regime has "thousands and thousands of fighters" and vowed: "We will fight. We have whole cities on our sides. They are coming en masse to protect Tripoli to join the fight."
But it appeared that Gadhafi's military was abandoning him quickly.
The rebels' way into Tripoli was opened when the military unit in charge of protecting Gadhafi and the capital surrendered, ordering his troops to drop their weapons, the rebel information minister Mahmoud Shammam said.
In a sign of the coordination among rebels, as the main force moved into the city from the west, a second force of 200 opposition fighters from the city of Misrata further east landed by boat in the capital. They brought weapons and ammunition for Tripoli residents who join the rebellion, said Munir Ramzi of the rebels' military council in Misrata.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Gadhafi's regime was "clearly crumbling" and that the time to create a new democratic Libya has arrived.
The sooner Gadhafi "realizes that he cannot win the battle against his own people, the better," he said in a statement, adding that NATO will continue to strike his troops if they make "any threatening moves toward the Libyan people."
It was a stunning reversal for Gadhafi, who earlier this month had seemed to have a firm grip on his stronghold in the western part of Libya, despite months of NATO airstrikes on his military. Rebels had been unable to make any advances for weeks, bogged down on the main fronts with regime troops in the east and center of the country.Gadhafi is the Arab world's longest-ruling, most erratic, most grimly fascinating leader presiding for 42 years over this North African desert republic with vast oil reserves and just 6 million people. For years, he was an international pariah blamed for the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jumbo jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people. After years of denial, Gadhafi's Libya acknowledged responsibility, agreed to pay up to $10 million to relatives of each victim, and declared he would dismantle all weapons of mass destruction.
That eased him back into the international community.
But on February 22, days after the uprising against him began, Gaddafi gave a televised speech amid violent social unrest against his autocratic rule. In the speech, he vowed to hunt down protesters "inch by inch, room by room, home by home, alleyway by alleyway." The speech caused a furor that fueled the armed rebellion against him and it has been since mocked in songs and spoofs across the Arab world.
As the rebel force advanced on Tripoli, taking town after town, thousands of jubilant civilians rushed out of their homes to cheer the long convoys of pickup trucks packed with fighters shooting in the air. One man grabbed a rebel flag that had been draped over the hood of a slow-moving car and kissed it, overcome with emotion.
Some of the fighters were hoarse, shouting: "We are coming for you, frizz-head." In villages, mosque loudspeakers blared "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great."
"We are going to sacrifice our lives for freedom," said Nabil al-Ghowail, a 30-year-old dentist holding a rifle in the streets of Janzour, a suburb just six miles west of Tripoli. Heavy gunfire erupted nearby.
As rebels moved in Tripoli, thousands celebrated in the streets of Benghazi, the rebels' de facto capital hundreds of miles to the east. Firing guns into the air and shooting fireworks, they cheered and waved the rebel tricolor flags, dancing and singing in the city's main square.
Rebel chief Mustafa Abdel-Jalil in Benghazi confirmed to the AP that the rebels arrested Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam but refused to give the details of the capture.
"We have captured Seif al-Islam and he is in safe hands," he said.
In the Netherlands, the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said his office would talk to the rebels on Monday about Seif al-Islam's transfer for trial. "It is time for justice, not revenge," Moreno-Ocampo told the AP.
Seif al-Islam, his father and Libya's intelligence chief were indicted earlier this year for allegedly ordering, planning and participating in illegal attacks on civilians in the early days of the violent crackdown on anti-regime protesters.
Another son, Mohammed, was in contact with the rebels and was asking for guarantees for his safety, said rebel spokesman Sadiq al-Kibir. Mohammed, who is in charge of Libyan telecommunications, appeared on the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera, saying his house was surrounded by armed rebels.
"They have guaranteed my safety. I have always wanted good for all Libyans and was always on the side of God," he said. Close to the end of the interview, there was the sound of heavy gunfire and Mohammed said rebels had entered his house before the phone line cut off.
The day's first breakthrough came when hundreds of rebels fought their way into a major symbol of the Gadhafi regime the base of the elite 32nd Brigade commanded by Gadhafi's son, Khamis. Fighters said they met with little resistance. They were 16 miles from the big prize, Tripoli.
Hundreds of rebels cheered wildly and danced as they took over the compound filled with eucalyptus trees, raising their tricolor from the front gate and tearing down a large billboard of Gadhafi. From a huge warehouse, they loaded their trucks with hundreds of crates of rockets, artillery shells and large-caliber ammunition.
One group started up a tank, drove it out of the gate, crushing the median of the main highway and driving off toward Tripoli.
"This is the wealth of the Libyan people that he was using against us," said Ahmed al-Ajdal, 27, pointing to his haul. "Now we will use it against him and any other dictator who goes against the Libyan people."
At the base, the rebels also freed more than 300 prisoners from a regime lockup, most of them arrested during the heavy crackdown on the uprising in towns west of Tripoli. The fighters and the prisoners many looking weak and dazed and showing scars and bruises from beatings embraced and wept with joy.
"We were sitting in our cells when all of a sudden we heard lots of gunfire and people yelling 'God is great.' We didn't know what was happening, and then we saw rebels running in and saying 'We're on your side.' And they let us out," said 23-year-old Majid al-Hodeiri. He said he was captured four months ago by Gadhafi's forces crushing the uprising in his home city of Zawiya. He said he was beaten and tortured while under detention.
From the military base, the convoy sped toward the capital.
Mahmoud al-Ghwei, 20 and unarmed, said he had just came along with a friend for the ride .
"It's a great feeling. For all these years, we wanted freedom and Gadhafi kept it from us. Now we're going to get rid of Gadhafi and get our freedom," he said.
The uprising against Gadhafi broke out in mid-February, and anti-regime protests quickly spread. A brutal regime crackdown quickly transformed the protests into an armed rebellion. Rebels seized Libya's east, setting up an internationally recognized transitional government there, and two pockets in the west, the port city of Misrata and the Nafusa mountain range.
Gadhafi clung to the remaining territory, and for months neither side has been able to break the other.
In early August, however, rebels launched an offensive from the Nafusa mountains, intending to open a new, western front to break the deadlock. They fought their way down to the Mediterranean coastal plain, backed by NATO airstrikes, and captured the strategic city of Zawiya.
On Saturday, they consolidated control of Zawiya, then launched their furious rush on the capital.
At the same time, rebel "sleeper cells" inside Tripoli rose up and clashed with Gadhafi loyalists. Rebel fighters who spoke to relatives in Tripoli by phone said hundreds rushed into the streets in anti-regime protests in several neighborhoods on Sunday.
"We received weapons by sea from Benghazi. They sent us weapons in boats," said Ibrahim Turki, a rebel in the Tripoli neighborhood of Tajoura, which saw heavy fighting the past two days. "Without their weapons, we would not have been able to stand in the face of the mighty power of Gadhafi forces."
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Hadeel Al-Shalchi in Cairo contributed to this report.
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) Libyan rebels raced into Tripoli Sunday and met little resistance as Moammar Gadhafi's defenders melted away and his 42-year rule rapidly crumbled. The euphoric fighters celebrated with residents of the capital in Green Square, the symbolic heart of the regime.
Gadhafi's whereabouts were unknown, though state TV broadcast his bitter pleas for Libyans to defend his regime. Opposition fighters captured his son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, who along with his father faces charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands. Another son was in contact with rebels about surrendering, the opposition said.
"It's over, frizz-head," chanted hundreds of jubilant men and women massed in Green Square, using a mocking nickname of the curly-haired Gadhafi. The revelers fired shots in the air, clapped and waved the rebels' tricolor flag. Some set fire to the green flag of Gadhafi's regime and shot holes in a poster with the leader's image.
By the early hours of Monday, rebels controlled large parts of the capital. They set up checkpoints alongside residents many of them secretly armed by rebel smugglers in recent weeks. But pockets of pro-Gadhafi fighters remained: In one area, Associated Press reporters with the rebels were stopped and told to take a different route because of regime snipers nearby.
"We were waiting for the signal and it happened," said Nour Eddin Shatouni, a 50-year-old engineer who was among the residents who flowed out of their homes to join the celebrations. "All mosques chanted 'God is great' all at once. We smelled a good scent, it is the smell of victory. We know it is the time."
The seizure of Green Square held profound symbolic value and marked a stunning turn in the tide of the 6-month-old Libyan civil war. The regime has held pro-Gadhafi rallies there nearly every night since the revolt began in February, and Gadhafi delivered speeches to his loyalists from the historic Red Fort that overlooks the square.
The sweep into the capital came after the rebel fighters advanced 20 miles from the west in a matter of hours. They took town after town and overwhelmed a major military base meant to defend Tripoli, 16 miles from the city. All the way, they met little resistance and residents poured out on the streets to welcome them.
In a series of angry and defiant audio messages broadcast on state television, Gadhafi called on his supporters to march in the streets of the capital and "purify it" of "the rats." He was not shown in the messages.
His defiance raised the possibility of a last-ditch fight over the capital, home to 2 million people. Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim claimed the regime has "thousands and thousands of fighters" and vowed: "We will fight. We have whole cities on our sides. They are coming en masse to protect Tripoli to join the fight."
But it appeared that Gadhafi's military was abandoning him quickly.
The rebels' way into Tripoli was opened when the military unit in charge of protecting Gadhafi and the capital surrendered, ordering his troops to drop their weapons, the rebel information minister Mahmoud Shammam said.
In a sign of the coordination among rebels, as the main force moved into the city from the west, a second force of 200 opposition fighters from the city of Misrata further east landed by boat in the capital. They brought weapons and ammunition for Tripoli residents who join the rebellion, said Munir Ramzi of the rebels' military council in Misrata.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Gadhafi's regime was "clearly crumbling" and that the time to create a new democratic Libya has arrived.
The sooner Gadhafi "realizes that he cannot win the battle against his own people, the better," he said in a statement, adding that NATO will continue to strike his troops if they make "any threatening moves toward the Libyan people."
It was a stunning reversal for Gadhafi, who earlier this month had seemed to have a firm grip on his stronghold in the western part of Libya, despite months of NATO airstrikes on his military. Rebels had been unable to make any advances for weeks, bogged down on the main fronts with regime troops in the east and center of the country.Gadhafi is the Arab world's longest-ruling, most erratic, most grimly fascinating leader presiding for 42 years over this North African desert republic with vast oil reserves and just 6 million people. For years, he was an international pariah blamed for the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jumbo jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people. After years of denial, Gadhafi's Libya acknowledged responsibility, agreed to pay up to $10 million to relatives of each victim, and declared he would dismantle all weapons of mass destruction.
That eased him back into the international community.
But on February 22, days after the uprising against him began, Gaddafi gave a televised speech amid violent social unrest against his autocratic rule. In the speech, he vowed to hunt down protesters "inch by inch, room by room, home by home, alleyway by alleyway." The speech caused a furor that fueled the armed rebellion against him and it has been since mocked in songs and spoofs across the Arab world.
As the rebel force advanced on Tripoli, taking town after town, thousands of jubilant civilians rushed out of their homes to cheer the long convoys of pickup trucks packed with fighters shooting in the air. One man grabbed a rebel flag that had been draped over the hood of a slow-moving car and kissed it, overcome with emotion.
Some of the fighters were hoarse, shouting: "We are coming for you, frizz-head." In villages, mosque loudspeakers blared "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great."
"We are going to sacrifice our lives for freedom," said Nabil al-Ghowail, a 30-year-old dentist holding a rifle in the streets of Janzour, a suburb just six miles west of Tripoli. Heavy gunfire erupted nearby.
As rebels moved in Tripoli, thousands celebrated in the streets of Benghazi, the rebels' de facto capital hundreds of miles to the east. Firing guns into the air and shooting fireworks, they cheered and waved the rebel tricolor flags, dancing and singing in the city's main square.
Rebel chief Mustafa Abdel-Jalil in Benghazi confirmed to the AP that the rebels arrested Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam but refused to give the details of the capture.
"We have captured Seif al-Islam and he is in safe hands," he said.
In the Netherlands, the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said his office would talk to the rebels on Monday about Seif al-Islam's transfer for trial. "It is time for justice, not revenge," Moreno-Ocampo told the AP.
Seif al-Islam, his father and Libya's intelligence chief were indicted earlier this year for allegedly ordering, planning and participating in illegal attacks on civilians in the early days of the violent crackdown on anti-regime protesters.
Another son, Mohammed, was in contact with the rebels and was asking for guarantees for his safety, said rebel spokesman Sadiq al-Kibir. Mohammed, who is in charge of Libyan telecommunications, appeared on the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera, saying his house was surrounded by armed rebels.
"They have guaranteed my safety. I have always wanted good for all Libyans and was always on the side of God," he said. Close to the end of the interview, there was the sound of heavy gunfire and Mohammed said rebels had entered his house before the phone line cut off.
The day's first breakthrough came when hundreds of rebels fought their way into a major symbol of the Gadhafi regime the base of the elite 32nd Brigade commanded by Gadhafi's son, Khamis. Fighters said they met with little resistance. They were 16 miles from the big prize, Tripoli.
Hundreds of rebels cheered wildly and danced as they took over the compound filled with eucalyptus trees, raising their tricolor from the front gate and tearing down a large billboard of Gadhafi. From a huge warehouse, they loaded their trucks with hundreds of crates of rockets, artillery shells and large-caliber ammunition.
One group started up a tank, drove it out of the gate, crushing the median of the main highway and driving off toward Tripoli.
"This is the wealth of the Libyan people that he was using against us," said Ahmed al-Ajdal, 27, pointing to his haul. "Now we will use it against him and any other dictator who goes against the Libyan people."
At the base, the rebels also freed more than 300 prisoners from a regime lockup, most of them arrested during the heavy crackdown on the uprising in towns west of Tripoli. The fighters and the prisoners many looking weak and dazed and showing scars and bruises from beatings embraced and wept with joy.
"We were sitting in our cells when all of a sudden we heard lots of gunfire and people yelling 'God is great.' We didn't know what was happening, and then we saw rebels running in and saying 'We're on your side.' And they let us out," said 23-year-old Majid al-Hodeiri. He said he was captured four months ago by Gadhafi's forces crushing the uprising in his home city of Zawiya. He said he was beaten and tortured while under detention.
From the military base, the convoy sped toward the capital.
Mahmoud al-Ghwei, 20 and unarmed, said he had just came along with a friend for the ride .
"It's a great feeling. For all these years, we wanted freedom and Gadhafi kept it from us. Now we're going to get rid of Gadhafi and get our freedom," he said.
The uprising against Gadhafi broke out in mid-February, and anti-regime protests quickly spread. A brutal regime crackdown quickly transformed the protests into an armed rebellion. Rebels seized Libya's east, setting up an internationally recognized transitional government there, and two pockets in the west, the port city of Misrata and the Nafusa mountain range.
Gadhafi clung to the remaining territory, and for months neither side has been able to break the other.
In early August, however, rebels launched an offensive from the Nafusa mountains, intending to open a new, western front to break the deadlock. They fought their way down to the Mediterranean coastal plain, backed by NATO airstrikes, and captured the strategic city of Zawiya.
On Saturday, they consolidated control of Zawiya, then launched their furious rush on the capital.
At the same time, rebel "sleeper cells" inside Tripoli rose up and clashed with Gadhafi loyalists. Rebel fighters who spoke to relatives in Tripoli by phone said hundreds rushed into the streets in anti-regime protests in several neighborhoods on Sunday.
"We received weapons by sea from Benghazi. They sent us weapons in boats," said Ibrahim Turki, a rebel in the Tripoli neighborhood of Tajoura, which saw heavy fighting the past two days. "Without their weapons, we would not have been able to stand in the face of the mighty power of Gadhafi forces."
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Hadeel Al-Shalchi in Cairo contributed to this report.
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Libyan rebels say Gadhafi's son arrested
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) A Libyan rebel leader says Moammar Gadhafi's son and one-time heir apparent Seif al-Islam has been arrested.
Sidiq al-Kibir, the rebel leadership council's representative for the capital Tripoli, confirmed the arrest to The Associated Press on Sunday but did not give any further details.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) Libyan rebels have entered the capital Tripoli and are within two miles of the city center.
Associated Press reporters with the rebels said they met little resistance Sunday as Moammar Gadhafi's defenders appeared to melt away.
Source: Libyan rebels say Gadhafi's son arrested - Yahoo! News
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- People celebrate the recent news of uprising in Tripoli against Moammar Gadhafi's
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) A Libyan rebel leader says Moammar Gadhafi's son and one-time heir apparent Seif al-Islam has been arrested.
Sidiq al-Kibir, the rebel leadership council's representative for the capital Tripoli, confirmed the arrest to The Associated Press on Sunday but did not give any further details.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) Libyan rebels have entered the capital Tripoli and are within two miles of the city center.
Associated Press reporters with the rebels said they met little resistance Sunday as Moammar Gadhafi's defenders appeared to melt away.
Source: Libyan rebels say Gadhafi's son arrested - Yahoo! News
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Irish-Libyan rebel fighter Husam Najjair speaks to reporters at a front line checkpoint
NALUT, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebel Husam Najjair seems more concerned about the possibility of rebels turning on each other when they try to take control of the capital Tripoli than the threat posed by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
"The first thing my brigade will do is set up checkpoints to disarm everyone, including other rebel groups, because otherwise it will be a bloodbath," said Najjair. "All the rebel groups will want to control Tripoli. Order will be needed."
His comments pointed to the biggest question that will be asked as the endgame appears to be nearing in Libya -- is there one unifying figure who can lead Libya if the rebels take over?
Right now the resounding answer seems to be no.
"There isn't one rebel leader who is respected by everyone. That's the problem," said Kamran Bokhari, Middle East Director at STRATFOR global intelligence firm.
Gaddafi ran the North African oil producing-country like a cult, without state institutions that would make any transition easier for the rebels, who have plenty of spirit but lack a proper chain of command.
They are also weighed down by factionalism and ethnic and tribal divisions.
The most prominent rebel leader is Mustafa Abdel Jalil, chairman of the National Transitional Council (NTC), a disparate group of Gaddafi opponents based in the eastern city of Benghazi.
It consists of former government ministers and longstanding opposition members who represent wide-ranging views including Arab nationalism, Islamists, secularists, socialists and businessmen.
A former justice minister, the soft-spoken Abdel Jalil was described as a "fair-minded technocrat" in a U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.
A mild-mannered consensus builder in his late 50s, he was praised by Human Rights Watch for his work on Libya's criminal code reform. Abdel Jalil resigned as justice minister in February when violence was used against protestors.
But like other former members of Gaddafi's inner circle, he will always be viewed with suspicion by some rebels who want completely new faces with no past links to the regime running the country.
The prime minister of the rebels' shadow government, Mahmoud Jibril, a former top development official under Gaddafi, has extensive foreign contacts and has been the rebels' roving envoy.
But his travels have frustrated some colleagues and foreign backers so his experience and contact building will have been wasted if he is not part of any new administration.
Another prominent rebel who may play a future leadership role is Ali Tarhouni. THe U.S.-based academic and opposition figure in exile returned to Libya to take charge of economic, financial and oil matters for the rebels.
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Tensions between life-long opponents of Gaddafi and his supporters who recently defected to the rebel side may undermine efforts to choose an effective leadership.
If hardliners prevail, Libya could make the same mistake that analysts say was made in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
His Baath Party supporters and army officers were purged en masse, creating a power vacuum that led to instability for years as everyone from his secular backers to al Qaeda waged a violent campaign against Iraq's new U.S.-backed rulers.
"You cannot make a rule that anyone who worked for Gaddafi cannot work with us. It's not practical at all," said Ashour Shamis, a United Kingdom-based Libyan opposition activist.
Such an approach would undermine efforts to bring back capable people to undertake perhaps the most critical task of all -- revitalizing the oil industry.
Those who want to put aside animosities for the sake of rebuilding the country's energy sector may want to turn to its former top official Shokri Ghanem for help.
The Western-educated Ghanem, who defected, has decades of experience in the oil sector and is a former prime minister credited with liberalizing the Libyan economy and accelerating the opening of the country to global petroleum investment.
Bringing people like Ghanem back will depend to a great extent on whether rebels will be willing to put aside their differences and take a practical view of Libya's future.
FRACTIONALISM
Judging by realities on the ground, it won't be easy.
Take the Western Mountains region, where rebels recently made the most dramatic gains in months.
The fighters showed far more discipline as they swept through towns and villages in the plains and eventually reached Zawiyah, about a 30 minute drive from Tripoli.
Beneath the surface, the rebels were torn apart by divisions and factionalism. Berber and Arab villages look at each other with disdain.
Rebels refer to themselves as the fighters from village x or village y, not the rebels of Libya. When journalists want to reach frontlines, they are told to get written permission from whichever rebel is in charge of a specific area.
Najjair, an Irish-Libyan who left behind his life as a building contractor to take up arms against Gaddafi, constantly went on about how his Tripoli Brigade was the best-suited to seize the capital because its members were all from Tripoli.
"We are the most organized. But we get the least help from the other rebel groups," was his constant complaint.
As the rebels close in on Tripoli, the common cause of fighting Gaddafi could ease divisions.
A hint of what could be in store is the still unexplained July 28 killing of the rebels' military commander, Abdel Fattah Younes, a former top Gaddafi security official, after he was taken into custody by his own side for questioning.
The killing has raised fears that the NTC is too weak and fractured to halt a slide into bloodshed as rival factions, including Islamists, bid for power.
An increasing number of fighters in the Western Mountains, for instance, are growing long, thick beards, the trademark of Islamists who are likely to reject close ties with the West in a new Libya, while others cry out for foreign investment.
They may also argue that the rebels from the Western Mountains and the city of Misrata should be given the most powerful positions in any new government since they did most of the fighting while the ones in Benghazi dealt with administration.
The bitterness was palpable on the frontlines along the desert plains in the West, even though different rebel groups took part in the advance.
The rebels from Benghazi were portrayed as outsiders who were often late in delivering weapons and other supplies to their counterparts.
Rebels in the leadership structure will have to figure out ways to defuse tensions among their ranks while trying to run Libya.
"Talking over Tripoli will be very complex and trying. Just organizing the feeding of the rebels and getting supplies in will be tough,
especially since Gaddafi's people have been busy digging trenches to prepare," said Bokhari.
"But running the country will be much tougher for the rebels. Finding people who everyone accepts will be the challenge."
(Additional reporting by William Maclean in London and Christian Lowe in Algiers; editing by Maria Golovnina)
(Reporting By Maria Golovnina)
source: Who can unite Libya if Gaddafi falls? - Yahoo! News
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Libyan rebels surge into Tripoli, seizing Green Square
Tens of thousands of Libyans celebrate the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son Saif al-islam and the partial fall of Tripoli in the hands of the Libyan rebels on August 21, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Libyan rebels have reached the highly symbolic Green Square in the centre of Tripoli, Sky News said early on Monday, showing scenes of jubilant crowds gathered there. Young men, many waving the red, black and green flag of anti-regime forces, were shouting and dancing in obvious joy, shouting Allahu Akbar (God is greatest) and some firing rifles into the air.
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Tens of thousands of Libyans celebrate the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son Saif al-islam and the partial fall of Tripoli in the hands of the Libyan rebels on August 21, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Libyan rebels have reached the highly symbolic Green Square in the centre of Tripoli, Sky News said early on Monday, showing scenes of jubilant crowds gathered there. Young men, many waving the red, black and green flag of anti-regime forces, were shouting and dancing in obvious joy, shouting Allahu Akbar (God is greatest) and some firing rifles into the air.
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Kweli mkuu. This is very complicated issue. Kwenye issue ya Libya, kuna genuine and mass upheaval but commingled with imperialist intrigue. Hii ndio inayofanya Libyan revolution iwe so complicated. No one in the west has backed Gaddafi since he came into power. Lakini Misri, uprising ilikuwa product ya mass discontent dhidi ya Mubaraki aliyekuwa anaungwa mkono na Marekani. American imperialism ilikuwa na reliable base mpaka ndani ya jeshi la Misri.
Kwenye, uprising ya Misri, Marekani ilikuwa inajaribu kustalilise the existed status quo ili Marekani iendelee ku dominate Middle East na interests zake za kiuchumi Misri. Hii ni tofauti kabisa na Libya ambako the West has been trying to diatabilise the status quo for quite a long time now. Kabla ya haya, Marekani ilikuwa haina interests or economic holdings in Libya. Kwa hiyo sasa wanataka kutumia hii revolution for a neo colonial regime possibly for the interests of the West. So, while there is genuine and just mass upheaval in Libya, there are also significant elements of imperialist maneuvering involved.
Tofauti nyingine ni kuwa yanayotokea Libya is Gaddafi himself. Gaddafi sio Mubarak. Gaddafi alikuwa na support kubwa ndani ya Libya alivyoingia madarakani mwaka 1969. Pia kwa muda mrefu Gadaffi ameonekana kama mtetezi na mtu mwenye msimamo wa kweli juu ya rasilimali za nchi yake. Alionekana kama mtu aliyekuwa against imperialism. Mpaka Marekani walitaka kumwua miaka ya 1980.
So, Gaddafi is not really the same as the openly servile Mubarak, even though the Gaddafi regime never fundamentally broke with or fundamentally challenged imperialism. Kuna watu wanasema, ideologically Gaddafi was a communist. But alikuwa anti communist and claimed that he was finding a third way between capitalism and communism. In reality, Gaddafi ended up creating a state capitalism based on oil revenues and beholden to world imperialism for markets, technology, transport, and investment capital.
Kuna kitu ambacho nimeona watu wengi labda hawajui au wame ignore katika arguments zao. Inaelekea watu wengi sana wanaomuunga mkono Gadaffi hawajui ni kwa nini Walibya hawamtaki Gadaffi. Watu wengi wanaomtetea Gadaffi hata hapa JF wanakuja na hoja mbili. Moja ni imperialism na ya pili ni kuwa Gaddafi kawasaidia sana Walibya kiasi kwamba wanapata all the needs lakini wamesahau yote hayo. Laini kama ulifuatilia uprising ya Egypt na Tunisia hapa JF utagudua kuwa wengi wa wanaomsapoti Gaddafi, hawakusema lolote kumtetea Mubarak, simply because ilikuwa ngumu kufanya hivyo. Mubarak was being supported by the Americans na Wamisri walitaka mabadiliko b'se hali yao kiuchumi ilikuwa mbaya sana.
Libya, hali ya kiuchumi haukuwa mbaya kihivyo. Hoja kuu ya Walibya kutaka Gaddafi aondoke haikuwa kupanda kwa bei ya bidhaa kama Tunisia na Misri. Walibya walichotaka ni kitu kimoja tuu: FREEDOM. Inawezekana they had everything at their disposal but for FREEDOM. Of course, Wamisri na Watunisia nao hawakuwa na freedom, but the main cause of their revolutions was not FREEDOM. Ndio maana mpaka sasa bado kuna malumbano na maandamano.
Finally, there are important lessons our leaders and the people in general across Africa need to learn from what just happened in Libya. It is not about leadership or no leadership. Rather, the question is what kind of leadership? Serving what goals? Using what methods to achieve those goals? We are facing big challenges to rise to and our future still remains to be written.
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Wanabodi,
Nasikiliza BBC Swahili saa hizi Saa 12:00 alfajiri ambayo ni saa 11:00 Alfajiri. Ghadafi sasa ametekwa.
Kutekwa kwa Ghadafi ndio kiashiria cha mwisho wa utawala wake uliodumu kwa miongo minne.
Tuwaombee wa Libya wananaomuunga mkono Ghadafi wawe na utii wa kikondoo ili kuepusha Libya kugeuka Iraq kwa kuifanya isitawalike!
Uthibitisho kupatikana saa moja kuanzia sasa.
Nasikiliza BBC Swahili saa hizi Saa 12:00 alfajiri ambayo ni saa 11:00 Alfajiri. Ghadafi sasa ametekwa.
Kutekwa kwa Ghadafi ndio kiashiria cha mwisho wa utawala wake uliodumu kwa miongo minne.
Tuwaombee wa Libya wananaomuunga mkono Ghadafi wawe na utii wa kikondoo ili kuepusha Libya kugeuka Iraq kwa kuifanya isitawalike!
Uthibitisho kupatikana saa moja kuanzia sasa.
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Ghadafi wanamkaanga muda ,watu wamejitokeza barabarani kushangilia ukombozi wa libya
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