Thursday, December 19, 2024

Rebels siege Gaddafi’s compound

His ‘arrested’ son seen in Tripoli Rebels overran Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli Tuesday, raising their flag and ripping the head off his statue as they celebrated a symbolic, if not yet real, end to the strongman’s iron-fisted 42-year rule. The streets of Tripoli erupted into celebratory gunfire when news spread that the insurgents had ... Read more