Libya Live Blog

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2 min 54 sec ago - Libya

Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher has filed this report on Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade long rule: longer than anyone else, anywhere else.

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8 min 54 sec ago - Libya

Reuters reports that the EU Commission has announced that sanctions on Libya are to remain in place for the time being.

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8 min 54 sec ago - Libya

Alain Juppe, the French foreign minister, says the hopes that Mahmud Jibril, the chief of the Libyan NTC, will come to Paris in the coming days and would be present for the international contact group meeting on the situation.

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13 min 54 sec ago - Libya

The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan has welcomed the "downfall" of Muammar Gaddafi, calling him a "tyrant".
"The Muslim Brotherhood congratulates Arab and Muslim nations on the downfall of the tyrant of Libya," top leader Hammam Said said on the group's website.
"It is a great victory for the people of Libya during the holy month of Ramadan. Thousands of martyrs have paid the price of victory, which makes it special."

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14 min 54 sec ago - Libya

Sleeper cells, snipers, grad rockets and hidden Gaddafi forces are the biggest concerns for rebels, reports Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr from Tripoli.

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22 min 54 sec ago - Libya

Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reporting live from Tripoli now, says that clashes and violence is continuing in the capital, with the rebels pushing towards Gaddafi's Bab al-Azizyah compound, but facing resistance.
Rebel armed groups are also being deployed to maintain law and order in various neighbourhoods.
Forty international journalists are now trapped in the Rixos Hotel, Khodr reports.

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26 min 54 sec ago - Libya

Even as UK PM Cameron speaks in London, Reuters reports that forces loyal to Gaddafi in Tripoli have stationed tanks near his compound in central Tripoli.
"The situation is not stable. There is gunfire everywhere. Gaddafi's forces are using tanks at the port and Al Sarine street near (Gaddafi's compound at) Bab al-Aziziyah," said a rebel official in Tripoli, who gave his name as Abdulrahman.
"The revolutionaries are positioned everywhere in Tripoli, some of them are near Bab al-Aziziyah, but Gaddafi's forces have been trying to resist."
"[Gaddafi's] snipers are the main problem for the revolutionaries. There is a big number of martyrs, including my brother and two of my neighbours," he said.

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26 min 54 sec ago - Libya

UK prime minister David Cameron says that he would like to see Gaddafi "face justice" for his "appalling" crimes, but that the decision is for the Libyan rebel council to make.
He has warned against "complacency", and says that the government will soon be releasing frozen Libyan assets to the rebels.

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28 min 54 sec ago - Libya

UK PM Cameron says that the transition may not be smooth or easy, but that "the Arab Spring is a step closer to freedom and democracy".
The PM is taking questions from the press now.

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30 min 54 sec ago - Libya

UK PM Cameron says that Gaddafi must stop fighting, and that his fate will be decided by the Libyan rebel council. He says the transition in Libya must be led by Libyans, but that the UK will be, and has been, deploying humanitarian aid. He says that power supplies, communication networks, water and fuel supplies must be restored.
Diplomatically, he says the UK has a strong presence in Benghazi, and will re-establish its diplomatic presence in Tripoli, including stabilisation experts.
At the UN, the new Libyan political authorities will be given the legal, political and economic support that they need, he says.