Tuesday, August 30, 2011

TRIPOLI PICS TODAY......30/08/2011

Libyan rebels remove the green flags from poles at the Abu Salim square in Tripoli on August 26, 2011, as the opposition forces announced the transfer of their leadership to the capital, boosted by a UN decision to free up millions of dollars in aid money and despite not having captured strongman Moamer Kadhafi.





A Libyan rebel fighter stands watching as wounded comrades receive treatment by Red Crescent paramedics in the southern Tripoli district of Abu Salim on August 25, 2011, during heavy fighting. Hardened fighters streamed into Tripoli as Libya's rebels sought to deliver a knockout punch to Moamer Kadhafi's diehards and to flush out the elusive strongman, dead or alive.



A young Libyan resident walks past spent bullet shells scattered along a street in the Abu Salim district of Tripoli, the scene of heavy fighting between rebel forces and those loyal to Col. Moamer Kadhafi, on August 28, 2011. Libyan rebels closed in on Moamer Kadhafi's hometown of Sirte from both east and west, a senior military commander said, as the insurgents scrambled to restore essential services to Tripoli.




Rebels gather at Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli on August 24, 2011, as fighting rages in the area a day after it was captured by opposition forces with loyalist troops staging a fightback and the strongman boasting he went walkabout.





EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT-- Rotting corpses are pictured on mobile beds in the grounds of the general hospital in the restive Abu Salim neighborhood of Tripoli, on August 26, 2011. The putrefying bodies of around 80 people were found in the hospital, apparently the unlucky victims of fighting that prevented the wounded from being treated, an.





The bodies of dead loyalist fighters lie on the ground outside the south entrance of the Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli on August 25, 2011. Hardened fighters streamed into Tripoli as Libya's rebels sought to deliver a knockout punch to Moamer Kadhafi's diehards and to flush out the elusive strongman, dead or alive.



A Libyan rebel flashes the victory sign while driving through a seaside road in Tripoli at sunset on August 26, 2011. Libyan rebels, who overran Tripoli a few days ago, are intent on finding Moamer Kadhafi so they can proclaim final victory in an uprising that began six months ago.




A Libyan rebel burns a poster of Moamer Kadhafi at the Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli on August 24, 2011. Fighting raged near Moamer Kadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound a day after it was captured by rebels, as loyalist troops staged a fightback and the strongman boasted he went walkabout.



A French reporter works as Libyan rebels inspect a lobby at a luxury hotel in Tripoli in search of Saadi Kadhafi, a son of the Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, after rebels thought he was hiding in the hotel on August 24, 2011.


A Libyan rebel sits in Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's 'Afriqiyah One' Airbus A340 plane at Tripoli airport on August 29, 2011. Libyan rebels said that strongman Moamer Kadhafi still poses a danger for Libya and the world, as insurgents closed in on his hometown Sirte a week after overrunning his capital Tripoli.




Rebels are seen on the tarmac of Tripoli airport close to a destroyed civilian airpcraft, on August 27, 2011, as neighbourhoods in the capital slowly fell from the control of forces loyal to leader Moamer Kadhafi into rebel hands.



 An April 15, 2011 file photo shows Aisha, daughter of Libyan Leader Moamer Kadhafi, saluting the crowds gathered in her father's residence in Tripoli. According to the Algeian authorities Aisha gave birth to a baby girl at an undisclosed location in Algeria on August 30, 2011, the day after Algeria authorised the entry of ousted Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's wife and three children, including Aisha, for 'strictly humanitarian reasons'.




Libyan rebels take souvenir pictures inside the tent where Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi used to receive foreign dignitaries at the Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli on August 24, 2011. Fighting raged near the compound a day after it was captured by rebels, as loyalist troops staged a fightback and the strongman boasted he went walkabout.



Relatives and friends react as a ferry from Tripoli carrying former Kadhafi notorius prison Abu Salim political prisoners docks at the Benghazi main harbour on August 28, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. More than 10,000 prisoners held by the regime of Moamer Kadhafi have been released since the rebels captured Tripoli, but nearly 50,000 are still missing, a rebel military spokesman said Sunday August 28, 2011.


A rebel fighter poses on August 29, 2011 near Nofilia as they head to Kadhafi's hometown of Sirte where insurgents prepared to launch an assault after routing his forces in the capital Tripoli a week ago. The chiefs of staff of countries militarily involved in the Libyan conflict agreed that the war in the North African country was not over yet.




Libyan rebels drive through a street in Tripoli at sunset on August 27, 2011. Libyan rebels embarked on the job of getting the capital up and running again, as a gruesome find near a base of Moamer Kadhafi's elite troops highlighted the brutality of his regime.




A Libyan rebel fighter sits on an office chair close to a checkpoint at the entrance of the oil port city of Ras Lanuf on August 27, 2011, some 160 kms east of Sirte, the birth place of Moamer Kadhafi's birthplace, as rebel fighters prepared to attack the town, one of the last major regime holdouts east of Tripoli.



A charred skeleton lies at a makeshift prison next to a military base abandoned by elite loyalist troops in the district of Salaheddin in Tripoli on August 27, 2011. Local residents discovered the remains of some 50 people after rebel forces took control of the base of the 32 Brigade commanded by Moamer Kadhafi's son Khamis.



A Libyan rebel lies on the bed in Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's 'Afriqiyah One' Airbus A340 plane at Tripoli airport on August 29, 2011. Libyan rebels said that strongman Moamer Kadhafi still poses a danger for Libya and the world, as insurgents closed in on his hometown Sirte a week after overrunning his capital Tripoli.


A Libyan rebel sits in Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's 'Afriqiyah One' Airbus A340 plane at Tripoli airport on August 29, 2011. Libyan rebels said that strongman Moamer Kadhafi still poses a danger for Libya and the world, as insurgents closed in on his hometown Sirte a week after overrunning his capital Tripoli.




An anti-Gaddafi fighter walks next to a swimming pool in a house belonging to Muammar Gaddafi's son Hannibal in Tripoli August 30, 2011.



A scarecrow depicting Moamer Kadhafi stands in central Tripoli on August 30, 2011. Libya's rebels issued an ultimatum for Kadhafi's forces to surrender or face a military onslaught, as NATO said the strongman is still able to command his troops despite being on the run.















































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