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The Battle For Tripoli In Photos: Gaddafi And al-Megrahi Prepare To Talk Or Die In Libya

by | 22nd, August 2011

THE battle for Tripoli is raging. The SAS are on the ground. Men with Herefordshire accents are making ready to capture Gaffadi – or to kill him.

Rebel commanders have taken the headquarters of state TV.

The new Libyan Charge d’Affairs to the United Kingdom Mahmud Nacua is meeting with the Prime Minister.

Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi is in his house – the big new one Gaddafi gave the man who was jailed for the biggest act of mass murder on British soil. He killed 270 people in the Lockerbie bombing. He might now be wishing he was back in a Scottish prison.

Will the truth of that PanAm flight now out? It’s time to talkā€¦

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The entrance to the Rixos hotel is abandoned in Tripoli, Libya, Monday, Aug. 22, 2011. The Rixos hotel housed top government officials, foreign journalists and state television facilities but now just dozens of journalist remain trapped, unable to leave, inside the hotel which is still in control of forces loyal to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)



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