Libya

Lindsey Hilsum blogs on the surrender of Abdullah Senussi, the most feared enforcer of Colonel Gaddafi’s regime.

This is the Zintan’s chance to redeem themselves. If they treat Saif al Gaddafi humanely – in contrast to how the Misrata brigades treated his father when they captured him – it will boost their image and that of the new Libyan authorities.

Behind the scenes, the diplomatic momentum on Syria is growing. We are not just talking about the Arab League giving President Assad three days to halt the violence. I understand that senior American diplomats are travelling to Paris today to meet Syrian opposition figures, as well as a conclave of the British, French, Turks, Saudis…

MI6 had struck up such a budding relationship with Libyan Intelligence in the preceding years that when they wanted to kill our people earlier this year, we seem to have known about it. Which illustrates a point the spooks often like to make: that it is in Britain’s national interests to do business with people we don’t like.

“That man is a hero – whoever he is”, said the man from the National Transitional Council. “There is no question of prosecuting anyone even if it was a deliberate assassination”, said his colleague. The two men were explaining how Libya is answering the call to explain what happened to Colonel Gaddafi as best it can.

I’ve spent much of today with the Al Ghiran brigade, the fighters from Misrata who caught Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday. They are proud of themselves, writes Lindsey Hilsum.

The death of one of the world’s worst tyrants on Thursday made it impossible for me to report that we are now three months on since the UN declared a famine in southern Somalia, writes Jonathan Rugman.

Lindsey Hilsum witnesses scenes more in keeping with a funfair than Tripoli’s Martyr’s Square as families turn out to celebrate the death of the despotic Muammar Gaddafi

Channel 4 News live-blogs the capture of Muammar Gaddafi in Sirte on 20 October 2011.

As post-liberation euphoria on the streets of Tripoli starts to fade, residents of the Libyan capital are losing patience with their rustic ‘liberators’. International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports.

Speeding along the road towards Tripoli, on 2 September, some graffiti caught my eye. It was scrawled in English, on a wall in the town of Zahwiya, where the uprising against Gaddafi had been so brutally put down. The message was exquisite in its simplicity. It read: “WE ARE NOT RATS.”

Amid reports that Colonel Gaddafi’s troops have started to pull out, Bani Walid and its approaches remain insecure. It’s noon, Sunday, and the former Libyan rebels – who now call themselves the Libyan National Army (LNA) – are still negotiating with the Warfallah tribal leaders in Bani Walid over the surrender of the town.