In Libya you can have any colour you want, as long as it's green

For mile upon mile as we drove into Tripoli today, the colour was green.

All the shuttered shops, so common across the Middle East during Ramadan, were green; even the modern office builldings had a green tint to the colour of their glass. People feel such pressure from this regime, writes Channel 4 News cameraman Stuart Webb from Tripoli.

The city was very quiet as we entered. The rebels apeared to be firmly in charge, manning countless roadblocks. They’re looking for Gaddafi, hoping to stop him escaping. Cars routinely have their bonnets and boots opened to check that he’s not hiding there.

We went to Green Square, now renamed Martyrs’ Square. It is from here that day after day state television shows enormous crowds showing their support for Gaddafi’s regime.

But when we got into the square there was nothing there but thousands of bullet casings lying on the ground. The odd rebel fighter will come by in an armoured pick-up truck and fire a volley in celebration.

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At one end of the square there was an oily mess. This was intended to be the biggest picture of Gaddafi – his supporters had built scaffolding in the square – intricate scaffolding – from which they were going to hoist a giant poster of Gaddafi with his face looking skyward; showing the Nato jets that he was still in charge.

But the future of Libya is no longer green.