Our (new) man in Tripoli
The Government has decided that Dominic Asquith, great grandson of the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, will be our man in Tripoli blogs Gary Gibbon.
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The Government has decided that Dominic Asquith, great grandson of the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, will be our man in Tripoli blogs Gary Gibbon.
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s wife and three children have fled to Algeria. In Libya, the rebel council says it is an “act of aggression” that Algeria let them in the country.
With forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi given until Saturday to surrender by Libya’s rebel council, an expert tells Channel 4 News Gaddafi must now realise that the conflict is over.
The Abu Salim massacre of 1996, when 1200 prisoners were gunned down, may have been the spark that led to the Libyan revolution, as International Editor Lindsey Hilsum has been hearing.
As Libya’s National Transitional Council moves to Tripoli to attempt to restore normality, the African Union has refused to recognise the new government in a sign of support for Colonel Gaddafi.
All the latest from the Channel 4 News team in Libya, plus video, comment and analysis. Add your voice to the live blog.
As the hunt for Colonel Gaddafi continues, Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson watches Libya’s rebels close in on Abu Salim, the last district in Tripoli held by forces loyal to the despot.
This has been a defining moment for David Cameron, just as Tony Blair’s intervention in Kosovo was for him. But whereas Blair developed a whole theory of liberal intervention around his Kosovo motives in his famous Chicago speech we must wait to see how the remarkable success of Cameron’s Libyan campaign will change him.
As regime change unfolds in Libya, Channel 4 News also learns a recent intelligence assessment believed Gaddafi would still be in power in September.
Libya’s rebel fighters break inside Colonel Gaddafi’s fortified compound as street battles continue in Tripoli. For latest video and updates from Channel 4 News on the ground follow the live blog.
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from Tripoli, where she says Libyans are “wild with happiness” six months after the revolution began.
Libyans are free to text, call and blog again after a long telecommunications blackout, in a powerful symbol of how the rebels are ringing the changes.
Libya’s six month bloody uprising reaches Tripoli, as rebels launch an intense assault towards Gaddafi’s stronghold.
As a Scud missile is fired by the Libyan government’s forces, the US Defence Secretary says the regime’s “days are numbered”.
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.