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Problem:When they finally had overrun Moammar Kadafi 's vast fortress and crushed the illusion that he still ruled them, euphoric rebels hunted down symbols of the power Libya's leader had held over nearly every aspect of their lives.They torched the Bedouin tent where Kadafi famously met with dignitaries and journalists. They drove around in one of the golf carts in which he navigated the compound. They mocked him by trying on a cheap plastic military hat that he might have worn in photos and on television.Rebel fighters converging onTripoli from several directions burst Tuesday into the Bab Azizia compound, where Kadafi had once lived and ruled. Neither he nor his most high-profile son was there, but the triumph at Bab Azizia all but marked the end of the aging leader's nearly 42 years in power.The fast-moving rebel takeover plunged Tripoli into chaos, with celebratory fire from automatic weapons and even antiaircraft weaponry lighting up the sky late into the night. At midnight, crowds still were gathered in the capital's Martyrs' Square, renamed since the rebels captured it Sunday.Drivers leaned on their horns and the city's mosques echoed with calls in praise of God. The red, black and green rebel flag flew over Bab Azizia, which President Reagan bombed in 1986."There is no fear anymore," said Khaled Azwam, a man in his 30s, who sat in his car with his wife and two sleeping children. They were waiting for things to quiet down so they could return home safely. "Kadafi is almost gone."The heavy fighting in recent days has taken a toll on the city's civilians. Dr. Fathi Arabi, an orthopedist at Tripoli's Central Hospital, reported between 50 and 100 dead and hundreds wounded at his facility alone by Tuesday afternoon.The North Atlantic Treaty Organization , whose campaign of airstrikes has greatly aided the rebels, reported continued heavy resistance from Kadafi loyalists in a long stretch of the Mediterranean coast. They said Kadafi's forces fired another Scud missile late Monday toward rebel forces, but it did not appear to cause any casualties. Along the front line in easternLibya, NATO said its forces destroyed two rocket launchers that were firing into rebel-held territory.The explosion of people power showed Libyans' rage at a regime that made them subject to Kadafi's whim. But it also exposed challenges for both the Transitional National Council , the rebel authority in the eastern city of Benghazi, and Western officials who conducted a bombing campaign that greatly assisted the rebel cause.Evidence of lawlessness was pervasive. Young men armed with assault rifles staffed checkpoints — part of a whole class of newly armed men who may not be willing to hand their weapons over to the authorities.Though the rebels apparently defeated Kadafi, many wonder whether they will be able to provide security despite rebel leaders' blithe assurances that fighters have been trained to protect facilities. Libya's future leaders must quickly decide what to do with the both the rebel fighters and the regular armed forces.Many of the best Libyan fighters are from the Nafusa Mountains in the west, and they are largely Berber. Their recent advances appeared to have made the decisive difference in the nearly six-month conflict. They probably will demand a greater say in the future of Libya, including language rights that may rankle the country's Arab majority.It remains unclear how many Libyans genuinely supported Kadafi. "You're not welcome here," one man said as he glared at a pair of Western journalists, yelling an obscenity.Though many of the rebels complain that Kadafi squandered and stole the country's vast oil wealth, oil production ground to a halt during the conflict, and the national economy with it. U.S. and European countries said Tuesday that they were preparing to remove a freeze on billions of dollars in Libyan assets to help rebel authorities restart the economy.Rebel spokesmen in Benghazi said the Transitional National Council would move its headquarters from Benghazi to Tripoli this week.Kadafi's whereabouts remained a mystery, and it was unclear why his forces appeared to give way Tuesday. Just hours earlier, his son and onetime heir apparent, Seif Islam, appeared at a hotel still controlled by Kadafi loyalists to prove to Western journalists that he had not been captured, as the rebels had claimed.Kadafi is a master operator, who has throughout his career been a coup plotter, a terrorist mastermind, an opportunist and, to the disdain of his fellow Libyans, the Brother Leader, a title he bestowed upon himself as he spread his image across villages and cities.In a local radio broadcast, Kadafi said he had made a tactical withdrawal from his compound, which he accused NATO of leveling with airstrikes. He vowed to fight to the death. His last audio broadcast had been Sunday. He was rumored to have moved to his tribal stronghold of Surt farther east along the Mediterranean, or perhaps to a hiding place along the border with Chad or Algeria. Or perhaps he was on his way to Venezuela. A longtime acquaintance in Russia said he had received a short telephone call in which Kadafi said he was still in Tripoli. ||||| A large, half-packed suitcase on the floor of Salem Farhani's house showed just how fast he and his family bolted from their home — which had the bad fortune to be located within Moammar Kadafi 's Bab Azizia compound.Inside the once-feared residential and leadership complex, the base that allowed Kadafi and his most trusted lieutenants to menace this country of 6 million for decades, rebels and ordinary Libyans pillaged and plundered. Some were rummaging through Farhani's home in search of valuables, others were snatching the thousands of weapons and ammunition stashed throughout the area.A band of rebels climbed to the balcony of the main building to hang the red, black and green flag that predated the strongman. Then they peered out onto a grassy field, as Kadafi would, and even modeled garish military hats found inside that the Brother Leader might have worn.And all the while, exuberant Libyans flowing throughout the compound grabbed whatever they could."The money of the Libyan people is now going to the Libyan people," said Mohammad Manjoub, a 40-year-old bank employee making off with an electric space heater, a satellite receiver and a massive dagger from the homes of now-vanished regime loyalists.For decades, Libyans could only imagine what it was like behind the heavily fortified walls and green gate of Bab Azizia. Sure, they caught glimpses when adoring supporters would be bused in to show adulation during speeches Kadafi would deliver from the balcony of the palace-turned-museum that President Reagan bombed in a 1986 airstrike.But few ordinary Libyans had an inkling of what went on inside the drab buildings and military barracks — until Tuesday. And after getting a close-up look at the place, they decided to take a lot of it home.One man made off with a print of a Koranic verse. He said he wanted to protect it from looters. Another carried a sword he had found in someone's home. A few were carefully trying to hot-wire Toyota Land Cruisers.Abdullah "Lucas" Mohammad, a 27-year-old engineer, commandeered all the printer cartridges he could find. "I'm a businessman," he said with a laugh.More than a few young men had an eye out for caches of guns, with some cradling as many as three assault rifles in their arms. The common refrain was that they intended to hand the weapons over to leaders of the interim government. But the potential disaster of the gun looting became apparent immediately, when a particularly choice cluster of assault weapons sparked a ferocious, if short, gun battle.Unlike Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein , though, there were few, if any, reports of looting outside Bab Azizia."They are only stealing and looting Bab Azizia, not banks or even government institutions," said Mustafa Bahrouni, 25, a rebel supporter inside the compound who was sporting a new assault rifle. "We took things because, for 42 years, he took everything from us."Some rebels, however, preferred to bask in their status as fighters for a cause instead of being seen as soldiers enjoying the spoils of war.His fight against Kadafi over for now, Misurata native Addullah Hamid Ahmad took it upon himself to guard two foreign journalists as they made their way through the riotous compound."I was in this war for seven months," the 25-year-old physiotherapist said. "My uncle was killed. My sister was abducted. I don't want any more weapons." |||||
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Rebels and their supporters gleefully looted Moammar Gadhafi’s Bab Azizia compound in Tripoli today, celebrating the fall of the regime by making off with various valuables and weaponry from hastily abandoned homes. “The money of the Libyan people is now going to the Libyan people,” one bank employee told the LA Times, as he helped himself to a space heater, a satellite receiver, and a huge dagger. Other groups of rebels burned symbols of Gadhafi’s rule, like his famed Bedouin tents. Still others made for his weapons—a brief firefight broke out over one particularly enticing stash of assault rifles. But there were almost no reports of looting outside the complex. “They are only stealing and looting Bab Azizia, not banks or even government institutions,” pointed out one rebel supporter. “We took things because, for 42 years, he took everything from us.”