Where is Gaddafi? 'Gone with the wind'
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from Tripoli, where she says Libyans are “wild with happiness” six months after the revolution began.
It is almost six months to the day that we crossed the Egyptian border into Libya at the beginning of this revolution.
Tobruk had fallen and then the eastern capital Benghazi, and we spent six weeks following the rebels as they attempted to move west.
To be in Tripoli now and think about what has changed in this short half year is quite amazing. 
The streets are strewn with rubble and empty bullet casings, and pick ups are full of rebel fighters who are holding up their arms and shooting into the air.
From balconies and windows, women and children are waving and cheering the fighters. An old man on the side of the road watched the heavily armed convoy of rebels drive into town from the Nafusa mountains and said: “They are all my sons”.
I asked one man: “Where is Gaddafi?” He replied: “Gone with the wind.”
We actually don’t know where Gaddafi is but no one is afraid of him any more.
Who knows if this revolution will usher in democracy and human rights as the rebel leaders promise. But after 42 years of dictatorship, it’s unlikely that the path will be smooth. Libya is rent with division between tribes and towns as well as between those who remained loyal to Gaddafi until this week. But their number appears to be small, and for one day thousands are out on the street celebrating.
There is still fighting in some parts of the capital and the danger that more will lose their lives. But every Libyan I’ve met today is wild with happiness and full of optimism that they will live in the freedom they say they have craved.
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