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Whitehall prays Gaddafi doesn’t leave too soon
Whitehall officials scrabble to prepare for a post-Gaddafi Libya as rebels say they have succeeded in cutting off Tripoli’s lifeline.
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Muammar Gaddafi could have an underground escape route from his military compound to Tripoli International Airport, an engineer who worked on plans to renovate its infrastructure told Channel 4 News.
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from Tripoli, where she says Libyans are “wild with happiness” six months after the revolution began.
As a Scud missile is fired by the Libyan government’s forces, the US Defence Secretary says the regime’s “days are numbered”.
In his first speech since the launch of a major rebel offensive, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi urges Libyans to “get ready for the fight”, urging them to liberate the country from Nato and traitors.
Muammar Gaddafi’s regime has denied reports that the leader’s son Khamis has been killed in a Nato air attack in Libya’s western city of Zlitan which killed 32 people.
As it emerges Libyan rebel general Abdel Fatah Younes was killed by an Islamist militia fighting on his own side, the Gaddafi regime describes the death as a “slap in the face’ for the UK.
All Colonel Gaddafi’s Libyan diplomats are to be expelled from the UK as Britain recognises the National Transitional Council as the “sole governmental authority” in the country.
Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi could stay in the country as long as he relinquishes power, according to Foreign Secretary William Hague.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is ready to hand over power to the country’s rebels, according to French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe. But one defence analyst dismisses the claim as “wishful thinking”.
French claims that Colonel Gaddafi is ready to step down are just internal political posturing says defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones.
Whitehall officials scrabble to prepare for a post-Gaddafi Libya as rebels say they have succeeded in cutting off Tripoli’s lifeline.
Colonel Gaddafi’s regime in Libya could be entering a final, decisive phase, with reports that the main pipeline supplying oil to Tripoli has been cut.
The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. But whether he will face justice or not still hangs in the balance, a lawyer tells Channel 4 News.
“But will Colonel Gaddafi be gone by then? Everyone has their own theories. It’ll be over by Ramadan. Nato has to end it by August. He won’t be here at the end of the year. And then the vague ones. His days are numbered. It’s only a matter of time.”
Libya will not be given tickets to the London 2012 Olympic Games, despite organisers saying earlier that it had been allocated several hundred.