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. Fighting continues, but Tripoli, especially in the hands of rebels
. reward and offered amnesty to find Gaddafi
. journalists and dignitaries from Rixos Hotel freed
. US to submit UN resolution to unfreeze money for NTC
. rebel groups in Sirte
. Read the latest summary
Welcome to Middle East Live. Events continue to move at a breathtaking pace in Libya. You can see how another significant 14 hours night unfold on our live blog. Here 'sa summary of key developments:
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. Rebels in control of Muammar Gaddafi 's connection and seat of power in Tripoli , Stamping on a gilt bronze head of the deposed despot and set fire to his famous tent in a cathartic end his 42-year dictatorship. But per-Gaddafi strongholds remained in the coastal city of Sirte, his hometown, and the southern desert town of Sabha.
. The hunt for Gaddafi continues. . He did say a thunderous audio address he had in capital "\ discrete" and have been urging supporters to "Comb" Tripoli for traitors. In another audio message, swore Ibrahim Moussa, Gaddafi 's spokesman, that the battle for Tripoli and that it would's ability to fight for it "not only for the months, but years". He claimed Go Gaddafi loyalists were withdrawn from Tripoli for tactical reasons.
(So ??far we have found that Gaddafi said he had left the capital. This has been changed. Apologies).
Al-Jazeera has translated the message - see above.
. rebel leaders scramble to law and order in Tripoli as maintain National Transitional Government is preparing advice on the establishment of a stabilization program . Mahmoud Shammam an NTC spokesman, said half the members of the Movement 's board, which functions as an interim cabinet would arrive in Tripoli on Wednesday to coordinate the work on the maintenance of essential services and food security and law and order.
. Gaddafi loyalists still occupying parts of Tripoli, including the Abu Salim Al Hadba and neighborhoods after the New York Times. Abu Salim includes the Rixos Hotel, where having a group of journalists and foreign dignitaries since the days trapped. One of the journalists in the hotel, CNN 's Matthew Chance entrenched, tweeted:
Gunman awoke early, went to # Rixos lobby. Forces still on the perimeter.
. Rebels have a bizarre assortment of bling from the Bab al-Gaddafi Aziziya looted connection. Treasures include: Gaddafi 's golf cart, a gold-plated gun, Gaddafi caps and gold chains.
. The U.S. says it is working to help the frozen Libyan assets released to the NTC. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, said:
We want to give this money back to the TNC [NTC] for its use, first and foremost to meet humanitarian needs and to help it establish a secure, stable government and to move on to the next step in its own road map. And we hope this process will be complete in the coming days.
. Gaddafi will go where?
. . The draft resolution says the Assad regime may have committed crimes against humanity, according to the Wall Street Journal.
. Syria 's fragmented opposition took steps to form a national council But serious divisions and mistrust among the members, they are prevented from presenting a united front against President Bashar al-Assad 's regime more than five months into the country' s uprising, said participants. The opposition, fragmented by years of sectarian and ideological tensions, unprecedented gains against the regime, but there is no clear leader or the platform on the demands for more freedom and for Assad to withdraw.
The trapped BBC 's Matthew Price, foreign nationals from 35 in the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli, gave this audio dispatch to the Today show.
He described it as "five days of the siege of the Rixos Hotel" sayingd: ". We believe there are still snipers on the roof of the hotel ... The ITN man had just pulled an AK47 it"
Two satellite telephones set up on a balcony were destroyed by gunfire, so we've stopped transmitting our material. We wait and worry the gunmen could turn hostile at any moment.
Unfortunately, we can't cover it.
People cheered and laughed as they toyed with another of the eccentric symbols of the leader, an electric golf cart that Colonel Gaddafi used to drive around the compound ...
They rioted in barracks, whose occupants had melted as mysteriously as their leader. They broke into armories and reinforced concrete bunkers seemingly unaffected by NATO 's air attack, and carried away large boxes with AK47 and other guns, the bazooka (RPG) launchers and Berettas, the shoulder straps and magazines filled with ammunition.
They took, in short, weapons stockpiled by the regime for the sole purpose of oppression and slaughter its people. A man brandishing a stolen golden sniper rifle.
The joy was unconfined. They fired their new toys skyward with great abandon. Soon the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder and the ground was littered with bullet casings. A man with an RPG at the top of a dome are armed with a single shot and a large statue of an eagle perched on top destroyed.
Sky News 'Alex Crawford has posted this account Audioboo:
Lindsey Hilsum and submitted by Channel 4 News report this video:
Libyan rebels say 400 people died and more than 2,000 people were injured in the battle for Tripoli.
Channel 4 News's Lindsey Hilsum just met the British-educated brother of one the victims. She tweets:
If the rebels to unite the power and spirit and opportunity to the country on a new democratic basis, have, of course, we look to build relationships with them ... For now, the situation hasn 't be changed. Basically there are two leaders of the country, and to retain, despite the rebels 'success in Tripoli, Gadhafi and his loyalists influence and military potential.
Here 'sa gallery of the rebel attack Muammar Gaddafi' s connection.
The BBC was reporting from the link right now. His reporter Wyre Davies said he could not go so far into the compound as yesterday. There are still some people are fighting inside the compound, and the inner region is "a very difficult and dangerous place, with \ to get," he said. He also spoke about the complex of tunnels and bunkers under the connection. At one point he ducked as fire came from inside the compound, whereby an end to the interview.
Misrati appeared on Libyan TV over the weekend waving a gun and vowing to die a martyr for Gaddafi.
Above is a video of part of Muammar Gaddafi's overnight audio message calling on his supporters to rise up against the rebels, which he called "traitors and rats".
CNN 's Matthew Chance, caught one of 35 foreign nationals in the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli, the latest tweets from the besieged building.
Clashes outside the hotel. # Rixos4 squatting. # Libya
Reuters reported that the sound of the "heavy fire" - small arms fire and flak - from the area around the hotel.
The press freedom campaign Reporters Without Borders urged the National Transitional Council to secure the journalists' safety.
The deputy PM was also asked where Muammar Gaddafi was. He said:
We don't know where Gaddafi is . It will only be a matter of time before he is located.
But that was "not primarily a matter for those on the ground" and that the Libyans had, not NATO.
Guests at the Libyan Embassy in London can now wipe their feet on a new doormat Gaddafi. Sky News 's Tom Parmenter has this Twitpic the mat.
William Hague, the British foreign secretary, is giving a press conference in London. He says "we are witnessing the death throes of the Gaddafi regime in Libya" and tells Muammar Gaddafi to stop issuing "delusional statements".
Sirte, Gaddafi is 's birth, but the symbolic value of the collection of this city is the urgent need to overhaul bases, from which now included Scud missiles launched against Misrata.
These Soviet-era missiles are the heaviest weapons, the date of pro-Gaddafi Forces. At least four have been considered in the city, the latest heart explodes in a flash of orange in a thunderous explosion in the early morning hours, so that brief panic among hundreds of people gathered to greet relatives freed from captivity in Tripoli.
Misratans seem, the U.S. Navy have to thank for the failure of one of the missiles to reach their targets, with reports that a cruiser, which was in the Mediterranean with the Aegis missile Scud missile each time it is detected in the intercept are the Gulf of Sirte.
What is unnerving to people here is that the complaints have to take place perhaps for technical reasons at the last moment, is with today 's Scud blown next second before she would hit the city.
So far, the U.S. Navy has had four four-hit, but no one is sure how many Scuds government troops have still yet whether Gaddafi installed capacity, chemical warheads, has, as is the case with Iraq Scud missiles at Israel in the Gulf War in 1991, dismissed.
Reuters says districts in the center of Tripoli, Muammar Gaddafi, on 's connection, are under attack by pro-Gaddafi troops arrive.
The Foreign Office says it is doing everything possible to help free the trapped in the Rixos hotel, but it does not have representatives in Tripoli, writes Robert Booth.
"We are deeply concerned about this situation and we are with international organizations and the NTC and the Free Libya forces together to \ identify the best way to people in the Rixos free," said a Foreign Office spokesman.
"We urge Gadaffi 's forces at the Rixos, so the journalists free passage."
Rebels are advancing on Sirte, the last major stronghold of pro-Gaddafi forces, where Scud missiles have been fired towards opposition-held Misrata and apparently intercepted at the last minute by the US navy (see 12.23pm).
Around 35 foreign journalists and dignitaries are trapped in Tripoli's Rixos hotel, held prisoner by Gaddafi's forces.
. The British government is to be released by the UN Working Group on Libyan assets in order to financially help the rebels (See 23:54). British Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary William Hague, Nick Clegg praised both the rebels, as they handled the battle for Tripoli and the transition to a new government so far. Clegg said that they had learned from "the mistakes of Iraq".
. At least 85% of Libya's diplomatic missions around the world now reportedly recognise the rebels as the new Libyan government(See 1pm). Russia still won 't even recognize the NTC (see 10.47).
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Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chairman of Libya 's rebel National Transitional Council has offered a reward of around £ 1 million for the acquisition of Gaddafi.
He made the announcement at a press conference in Bengahzi to Sky News. The money was put business people in the city.
The design director of the Turkish construction company, designed and built the Hotel Rixos flatly denied rumors that it was through underground tunnels Gaddafi 's Bab al-Aziziya connection is connected, writes Robert Booth
Jalil seems to have changed his tune, at least as far as Gaddafi goes. On Monday, he warned of reprisals.
"I call upon all Libyans to act with responsibility and not justice into their own hands ... treatment of prisoners of war, good and friendly," he said. "We hope that he [Qadhafi] is caught alive, it held that a fair trial can \."
Here 's what Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chairman of Libya' s rebel National Transitional Council, said the amnesty offered over who captures or kills Muammar Gaddafi
The National Transitional Council, announced that someone from his inner circle, the Gaddafi kills or catches it, the company will be an amnesty or pardon for any crimes that this person has committed itself to provide.
Meanwhile, AP has determined that video of the journalists at the hotel.
Above is a very informative video of al-Jazeera shows the geography of the war in Tripoli - including the locations of Gaddafi 's link that says Rixos Hotel, the forest, where the channel, Gaddafi' s based sniper, and the per-Gaddafi stronghold in the building where the Libyan leader 's son Saif are used to visitors, now even to talk of pro-Gaddafi forces deployed.
BREAKING:
Jon Williams, the BBC 's foreign policy editor, to \ tweets "you acknowledge all of Rixos now".
BBC News is now reporting that BBC staff have left the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli. The rest of the media team were able to leave also, the BBC reported.
More from CNN 's Matthew Chance, who has just been released from Tripoli' s Rixos Hotel with about 35 other foreign journalists and dignitaries:
439pm local time: Crammed with other journos in the car. Reuters, other cameramen, FOX, and AP #rixos
Paul Danahar, the BBC's Middle East bureau chief, tweeted his own account of the journalists' release from the Rixos hotel. He seems to have been involved in negotiations to get them out:
2nd guard disarmed. Waiting.
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He says two gunmen loyal to Muammar Gaddafi who had been ordered by Saif Gaddafi to keep them in the Rixos to "keep them safe" had refused to let them out. The guards believed Gaddafi could still win, he said.
"It 's an absolute nightmare for us all," CNN' s Matthew Chance said the network.
He said many of those journalists broke into tears when they were published.
. "We have lived in fear and called the last five days against our will by these crazy shooters instead of one of them to me yesterday:" I assume you are happy now that Libyans Libyans killing '... I can 't tell you how happy we are, how relieved we all are, and how relieved all of our families. "
Chance said all the journalists were freed unharmed next to the "emotional scar '.
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Libya
. Tripoli is primarily controlled by the rebels and the government of Muammar Gaddafi seems to end - but Qaddafi himself is nowhere to be found. He put out an audio message last night called on his followers to attack the rebels and said he was traveling "discrete" in Tripoli \ and \ he will "not feel that Tripoli was \ in danger" (see 8.41). Fighting continues between pro-and anti-Qaddafi's forces in Bab al-Aziziya connection, many of whom - but not all - is now in the hands of the rebels (see 11.13). In his audio message, Gaddafi said he had left his compound as the "tactical move". There were only a few of yesterday 's scenes of jubilation, as many civilians remained at home. Symbols of the Gaddafi 's rule as leader of the billboards and street signs were destroyed or defaced named after him. Gaddafi 's daughter Ayesha against Libyans called NATO TV channel on a Loyalist (see 4.05) to unite.
The European Union is announcing sanctions against the elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, saying the Quds Force is providing equipment and support to help Syrian president Bashar Assad crush his country's five-month-old uprising.
Yesterday McCain illustrated his support for the Libyan rebels NTC, he 'great confidence in this ".
My colleague Alexandra Topping has written a piece on what will probably be on the new flag of the NTC 's Libya. This could already be in the 1950s and 60s, seen as the "emblem of the Libyan Republic". The flag can be seen everywhere in rebel-controlled areas of Tripoli and throughout the country.
Sarkozy said Syrians are in Libya 's liberation is now, although no two situations alike and "we are not here to start military intervention every time there is a problem".
Mahmoud Jibril, the NTC 's prime minister, is now speaking. He expressed gratitude to France, Great Britain, the United States, Qatar and United Arab Emirates found the support for the new Libya.
The fight is not over and per-Qaddafi's troops are still bombarded several southern cities relentlessly, he says. Gaddafi in Tripoli per-snipers are still firing.
Reconstruction will be a bitter fight, he says.
Jinbril says he has been talking with Sarkozy about France helping offer logistical support so the new academic year in Libya can start on time. Also they have been talking about the injured, and paying for artificial limbs.
Libyan consul Faraj Zarroug said about 85% of his country's 165 diplomatic missions now recognised the interim rebel government, the National Transitional Council.
Gaddafi's deputy chief of intelligence has quit, Al Arabiya TV reports.
, In Misrata has a message for the rebels submitted march toward Sirte and other cities still loyal to Gaddafi.
Opposition forces were converging on the city from two directions: from Misrata spearheads were approaching the outskirts of sources against minimal opposition from the West said. Meanwhile, opposition forces were pushed from the East after capturing the key oil ports Brega and Ras Lanuf.
"We can unite with the other forces [from the eastern front]," said Anwar Sarwan, a Misrata rebel logistics officer. "We are making good progress."The rebels are now urging the Misrata columns of men, artillery and ammunition on the road to Tripoli, with more than 2,000 fighters now in control of the eastern parts of the Libyan capital.
From the other direction are prisoners: the Guardian saw a pickup truck entering Misrata last night with what appeared to be black African soldiers in uniforms huddled on the back of the truck receiving occasional shots of their guards.
With Sirte expected within hours to be surrounded, say there is only one remaining rebel redoubt Gaddafi - the city of Sabha in the far south.
My colleague
Four Italian journalists were kidnapped in Libya, Italy has 's Foreign Ministry said. The journalists were kidnapped near Zawiya on Wednesday morning.
ITV News correspondent John Ray has described how he and his colleagues escaped from Tripoli's Rixos Hotel earlier today.
We basically went out of a fire door at the back, ran across the open ground, hunkered down by a wall, slipped out having pushed the back gate open and thumbed down a lift at the side of the road. The man who stopped and picked us up - I have to praise him for his bravery and humanity - he took us 100m down the road but was telling us in Arabic it really wasn't safe.
To prove his point, by the side of the road there was a car that apparently had been fired on and along the side of the car, say I 'm sorry, it was a body of a man who had been shot by 'I suppose the army.
Our driver turned around and took us to fourth in the immediate vicinity of the Rixos Hotel. These people took us in, they fed us, they gave us water. They were incredibly nice. They represented the best not only Libya, but the best of humanity.
Avvenire 's office in Rome said its reporter, Claudio Monici, called the paper' s newsroom in Milan, say, four journalists have been OK, and they hit a house, but it wasn 't clear exactly where . Monici had arrived in Libya only a few days ago.
In his latest dispatch, my colleague Martin Chulov in Tripoli, says a return to normalcy in the Libyan capital, seems a long way from three days after the quasi-liberation.
In this city of gunslingers, a clear hierarchy has emerged quickly. Social Affairs stand here, the men who first entered the capital - the rebels and the Berbers of Zintan Nafusa the mountains - see themselves as masters of the city that they conquered. Those who rode in, so as not to be stepped up in the east of Misrata far behind in the state.
My colleague
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