By all accounts, it now looks like it is all over for Gaddafi in Libya. Ambassadors are resigning left and right (Libyan diplomats in DC now say they represent the Libyan people); soldiers are defecting by the truckload; Libyan officials are fleeing the country and the Gaddafi regime is resorting to ever more violent and desperate measures.
Planes of the Libyan Air Force have reportedly opened fire on protesters in central Tripoli. No one has been able to confirm this independently-- but the same reports are coming in from many sources.
Salem Gnan, a London-based spokesman for the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, says eyewitnesses in Tripoli have told him the navy has opened fire on parts of the capital. Military ships are bombing an area in Tripoli and many people have been killed.
Al Jazeera's correspondent in Malta has reported that the pilots of Libyan jet fighters that landed there are "senior colonels", who were ordered to bomb protesters. They refused and have defected to Malta. Back in Tripoli, Libyan soldiers who are caught refusing to obey orders are shot & burned by troops still sympathetic to Qaddafi. Graphic video below:
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