Energetic Libyan rebels had taken control over the majority of Tripoli in a lightning advance Sunday, enjoying the victory in Green Square, the actual emblematic heart of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime. Gadhafi’s defenders quickly dissolved away as his 42-year rule crumbled, however the leader’s location had been unknown and pockets of opposition remained.
State TV broadcast Gadhafi’s bitter pleas for Libyans to guard his regime. Opposition fighters seized his son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, who together with his father faces charges associated with crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands. Yet another son was under house arrest.