Things are moving very quick ... hourly now.
This morning, Reports had the rebels overtaking a military base 25 km outside Tripoli.
Early reports talked about uprising in Tripoli.
http://www.calgarysun.com/2011/08/18/libya-rebels-hit-hard-in-west
Rebels enter Tripoli, crowds celebrate in streets
By Ulf Laessing and Missy Ryan, Reuters
First posted: Sunday, August 21, 2011 3:06:59 MDT PM
AL-MAYA/TRIPOLI – Rebel fighters streamed into Tripoli as Moammar Gadhafi's forces collapsed and crowds took to the streets to celebrate, tearing down posters of the Libyan leader.
A convoy of rebels entered a western neighborhood of the city, firing their weapons into the air. Rebels said the whole of the city was under their control except Gadhafi's Bab Al-Aziziya-Jazeera stronghold, according to al-Jazeera Television.
Gadhafi 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."
Gadhafi, a colorful and often brutal autocrat who has ruled Libya for over 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 Gadhafi's younger son Saif Al-Islam had been captured. His eldest son Mohammed Al-Gadhafi had surrendered to rebel forces, he told Reuters............................
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/middle-east-live/2011/aug/21/libya-syria-israel-middle-east-unrest
12.26am: Mahmoud Nacua, Libya's recently appointed charge d'affaires in London, sets out a rough timetable for what will happen next. He tells Sky News:
We are confident that our people in Tripoli are very organised and they have planned how to keep everyone safe and everything will go smoothly as we see tonight and as we saw in the other cities which were liberated during the last six months. So we're very confident that our people will control every part of the city.
The plan first of all is to have security. I think the National Transitional Council will come to Tripoli in a few days and they will start to establish a new national assembly, a new transitional government, to prepare for...the election of a permanent national assembly and it will take in the beginning about eight months, and will take in the whole about two years to start a new state, a constitutional, democratic state.
1.04am: Libyan rebels say they will rename central Libya's Green Square as Martyrs' Square, its original name, Al Jazeera reports. Jubilant opponents of Gaddafi are shooting at a poster of him.
12.56am: Rebel spokesman Mahmoud Shammam promises that Gaddafi will not be harmed and that the rebels want to see him stand trial in Libya. He tells Sky News:
We're not going to put (supporters of the regime) on trial, we're going to tell them they are Libyan, they are our brothers and sisters and we are going to ask them to join the revolution. We're going to build a state where everyone can get a good education, etc etc.
There are many rumours about (Gadaffi's) location. We're going to guarantee his safety and the safety of his family. We want to see him be tried in Libya and not in any other place in the world. We're establishing a state of law and we would like to see him in the court.
Asked about reports that looters are moving into the Rixos hotel in Tripoli, he says:
It's very hard to control the people and this emotion but we're asking them... not to take revenge. We're doing every possible thing but after 42 years of dictatorship, people have the right to carry out their emotion. But we would like to tell them to control that emotion and don't be against law and order.
12.30am: Reports suggest the African Union may be offering Gaddafi exile in Angola or Zimbabwe, Al Jazeera says.
12.11am: The International Criminal Court prosecutor's spokeswoman says it has been confirmed that Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam has been detained, Reuters reports.
12.09am: The Libyan rebels reach Green Square in the centre of Tripoli, Sky News reports.
12.01am: Tripoli resident Hakeem Guja has told the BBC: "We celebrate the victory. The people are very happy and want to thank the Nato forces for helping us."
