The Rebel Force Libyan State Television To Air After The Storm HQ Loyalist Forces Stage Provocative Last Stand

Libyan state television looks today, the insurgents stormed AK47 armed country's television and Colonel Gaddafi slipped into hiding.

The rebels said they ambushed the concrete building in Tripoli, killing soldiers guarding him.

It was one of the biggest gains on a joyful but ultimately frustrating day for the rebels, although heavy fighting continued in the evening as Al-Jazeera television reported a warplane shot down NATO a Scud missile from Sirte, Colonel Qaddafi hometown, just east of Tripoli.

Gaddafi's forces had fired Scud missiles earlier in the month of August that landed in the desert and hurts no one.

The Libyan state television station was used to spread propaganda messages Qaddafi since the unrest began on 17 February and the loss of the season is a blow to the leader.

"The revolutionaries stormed the television building ... after killing the soldiers around him. Is now under their control," the spokesman said. He was speaking after the station Jamahiriyah TV screens went blank.

BBC Monitoring Service has confirmed that television screens across the country went empty early this afternoon.

Heavy gunfire still echo across the city as a medium die-hard loyalists of the Libyan leader began a final against attack.

Government tanks emerged from the complex, known as Bab al-Aziziya and began shooting shortly after dawn after a rebel attack.

Residents said the fighters had tried to scale the walls of the compound of Qaddafi, but was greeted by a wall of fire. Libyan leader still controls Rixos area in the south west of Tripoli and mercenaries continue to fight for him. His youngest son, Khamis al-Gaddafi, is understood to head against an attack.

Within 24 hours the most crucial since the conflict began, the rebels now looks almost take control of the country in North Africa.

The rebels say they now control about 95 percent of Tripoli, in spite of the fight-back by the troops of Gaddafi, after four hours of calm. They said that about 1,300 people were killed in Tripoli.

Echtiwi Nouri, a rebel spokesman said: "Four hours of calm followed by a street party Then the containers and pick-ups mounted with heavy machine guns on the back came out of the Bab al-Aziziya, the last bastion of Gaddafi, and began firing projectiles and Al-Khalifa Street and Assarin area. They fired randomly in all directions, when they heard shots. "

Sources said that the shells belonged to the return of al-Bab Azizy made and that the rebels were "vulnerable" because of heavy weapons used by the forces of pro-Gaddafi.

NATO planes have been consulted in Tripoli, but yet they have not launched an air and perform surveillance work.

Shootings raged in Gargaresh district of Tripoli, where the government snipers could be seen on the streets. Snipers were also located on the main road through Madinat Seyahiyah. The rebels began firing back with AK47s and RPGs.

They began to prepare for an attack on Green Square, using jeeps mounted with rocket launchers. It also emerged today that the rebels has restored connections Libya internet and telephone, while the closure of state-owned Radio and TV.

The rebels have been securing key government buildings of the city telling residents to stay home while providing them immunity if they surrender their weapons. Residents of support have been returned to the hot milk and the rebels.

The convoys of the families on the roads are reported to travel around the country to Tripoli to attend the celebrations. The atmosphere in the capital remains the most depreciation, and residents waved flags and honking their car horns today.

Speaking this evening, Obama said that Libya was "escaping from the clutches of a tyrant," the battle between rebels and Gaddafi has reached a "tipping point".

Obama, who is on vacation in Martha's Vineyard, said that the surest way to stop the bloodshed is the Libyan leader to relinquish power.

He said: "The future of Libya is now in the hands of the Libyan people.

"Gaddafi has to recognize the reality that he lost control of Libya. He should resign once and for all."

The President promised to work in close coordination with the rebels and said the U.S. "continue to insist that the fundamental rights of the Libyan people is respected".

Statement by the President of the second 24 hours, was issued after Mr. Obama held a conference call for his national security team.

Elsewhere in Libya, there have been clashes between rebels and pro-Gaddafi mercenaries near Al-Hani region, while most of the artillery were captured at an air base.

The Libyan leader was believed to cower in a bunker outside of Tripoli, as fighting erupted around his room and burst into wild celebrations across the country between supporters of the opposition encouraged the rebels.

As the regime of the dictator appears to be on the verge of collapse after 46 NATO air strikes yesterday called independent television Libyan tyrant had "stung like a coward."

Gaddafi, the former right hand Jallud Abdel-Salam said the head was "not brave enough to make Hitler committed suicide.

"I think it's impossible that he admits," Jalloud told Italian television. "It's not like Hitler, who had the courage to kill himself."

Jalloud became the latest defector, when he fled to Tunisia to Tripoli on Friday, and shot in Rome.

He said that his former colleague is up to '10 days remaining in power.

"I do not think the situation in Tripoli will allow it to survive. I think the regime has left a week, 10 days. And maybe even less.

"He has no opportunity to leave Tripoli. All roads are blocked. He can not leave with an international agreement, and I think the door is closed. "

Mustafa Abdel Jalil Director of the Council of the Libyan rebels, said today: "We are the dawn of a new era ... a new phase that lays down the principles that this revolution is based What are the following: .. Equality freedom, democracy , justice and transparency within the moderate Islamic framework.

"Over the past few days in Tripoli revolutunaries have really shown that they are the revolutionaries of the capital. And call our capital Tripoli, calling it deserves.

"Muammar Gaddafi, will be remembered, and its period of domination through the acts he committed against the rebels and the world. In political assassinations, arrests and mind games. And eliminate all the efforts of the Libyan people to oust him from the first year of its revolution. There were many, many attempts to oust Qaddafi. The Libyan people never sent to Gaddafi, since the first years of the revolution .. or rather, since the first year of the coup.

"But God chose to end Gaddafi must be in the hands of these youth to join the Arab Spring, which is going on around the Arab nation.

"And now I say with all the transparency that Gaddafi was over.

The dictator may be offered exile by the African Union in Angola and Zimbabwe that his officials were in talks with South African officials, according to news channel Al Jazeera.

Meanwhile, three of the son of Colonel Gaddafi was reported to be in the hands of the rebels in Libya.

The head of the Council of Libya National Transitional Government, the ruling body of the rebels, said they had arrested Saif al-Islam and Al-Saadi, son of the tyrant two. A third, Muhammad was reported to have handed in.

Mustafa Abdel Jalil told Al-Jazeera: "He (Saif) is kept in a safe place, under close supervision until they handed over the judiciary."

Saif and insisted they would not be harmed, said the French newspaper Le Monde: "We have given instructions that he was treated well, to be judged."

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, has had a close relationship with the West and was considered by many to represent a more democratic future for Libya.

But from the beginning of the uprising, which was closely associated with his father. The International Criminal Court arrest warrant on charges of war crimes.

ICC said it also aims to transfer Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in The Hague indicted for crimes against humanity.

"The Court as a whole is involved," Fadi El-Abdallah said. He added that discussions were underway with Libya rebel National Transitional Council NTC on a shipment of Saif.

Gaddafi's eldest son, Mohammed, head of the company that manages all mobile phones and satellites in the country, while the head of the Libyan Olympic Committee.

Al-Saadi, has taken a lot of practical significance of the system of his father, as the commander of Special Forces in Libya. He was accused ordered the army fire on unarmed demonstrators in Benghazi at the beginning of the uprising.

As wild celebrations erupted between Libya's Gaddafi sign of the apparent departure of the foreign embassies were attacked.

In Greece, the Libyan embassy was ransacked, with portraits of Muammar Gaddafi, defaced and destroyed everything in Kuwait Libyan flag was burned.

It was reported that the dictator was in power for 42 years killing, actually moved a number of bunker-buster bombs and tunnels in the capital.

And even though it was supposed to have taken refuge in the complex - which is reputed to be able to withstand a nuclear attack - the dictator issued a message that their troops ready to mount a last stand.

Gaddafi's official spokesman and slammed against Britain, France and the United States - the three countries leading the campaign to topple the dictator - as it warned of a "terrible catastrophe" if the rebels took up forces in Tripoli.

Earlier in the day, sources inside the city's embattled pro-Gaddafi said the force had placed snipers on the roofs of buildings around the Bab al-Aziziyah, Gaddafi made secret, and the water tower in the vicinity .

Libyan folklore stuff his bunker complex. Tunnel is said to connect a wide, deep rooms to housing tanks, planes and weapons.

He added that "there is no room for complacency" and said there was "much work remains to be done" in the country.

"Gaddafi has to stop fighting without cause and to show that he gave up and control of Libya.

"We must do everything possible to support the will of a Libyan. This is, and will lead to Libya and the Libyan-owned process."

Asked if he thought he had the right to commit troops in Libya, Mr Cameron said: ".. There is no room for complacency, it is still much to do about them is, it's not us. "

The spokesman added: "Gaddafi has committed terrible crimes against the people of Libya, and he must go now to avoid unnecessary suffering to his people."

French President Nicolas Sarkozy for the first time invited a Libyan rebel leader to visit Paris on Wednesday and called on forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi to visit and support the transition in Libya.

Sarkozy spoke with Mahmoud Jibril, the Libyan rebels led National Transitional Government Committee and invited Gabriel to visit France Wednesday, according to a statement from the Elysee.

"As the development of the military situation on the ground and left to multiply in his camp confirmed that the end of the Gaddafi regime and his son is now inevitable and near, President of the Republic condemn in the strongest terms irresponsible and desperate call on Colonel Gaddafi to continue the fight at all costs, "the statement said.

The YouTube video below shows Libyans celebrating in front of the White House in Washington D.C.




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