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måndag, augusti 22, 2011

Gaddafi's presidential guard surrenders in Tripoli‏

Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's four decade rule over Libya was crumbling at breakneck speed on Sunday as rebel leaders claimed Gaddafi's compound was surrounded, that his son Saif al-Islam had been captured and his presidential guard had surrendered.

Late Sunday, opposition fighters were battling loyalist fighters for control of the symbolically significant Green Square in the heart of the city, previously the scene of near-daily pro-Gaddafi rallies, according to one Tripoli based rebel, as the sound of explosions, gunfire and cries of "God is great" echoed down the telephone line.
Another activist said rebels had secured the seaport, where several hundred rebel reinforcements had arrived by boat, and were also in the process of evicting Gaddafi loyalists from the Mitiga airbase on the eastern edge of the city.

WASHINGTON POST 

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