Gaddafi Compound

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  Former Libya Ruler Gaddafi's Son's Presidential Candidature Rejected

  Libya's election commission said on Wednesday that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the former ruler and a major candidate in December's planned presidential election, was ineligible to run, compounding the turmoil surrounding the vote.

• UAE embassy compound attacked in Libyan capital

  Unidentified assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the United Arab Emirates embassy compound in the Libyan capital Tripoli today, the latest in a series of attacks on foreign targets in the North African country.

• Libya to turn Moammer Gaddafi compound into amusement park

  Slain Libyan dictator Moammer Gaddafi's sprawling residence in Tripoli, Bab al-Aziziya, will be turned into an amusement park under plans announced on Tuesday by the tourism minister.

• Photo album from Gaddafi's compound reveals his 'diplo-crush' on Condoleezza Rice

  When you're the single, attractive secretary of state for the United States, you're bound to pick up groupies in all corners of the international diplomatic scene. But for Condoleezza Rice, who has been linked with diplomats from Rome (the Italian foreign minister, Massimo D'Alema) to London (Foreign Minister Jack Straw of Britain) to Pictou, Nova...

• Libyan rebels offers £1 million reward for Gaddafi's whereabouts

  Libyan rebels have announced an amnesty for anyone within Col Muammar Gaddafi's "inner circle" who captures or kills him, and a $1.7m (£1m) reward. The head of the National Transitional Council (NTC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, announced the amnesty offer from the eastern city of Benghazi. "Gaddafi's forces and his accomplices will not stop resisting ...

• Gaddafi defiant after rebel takeover

  Backed by NATO airstrikes and seasoned reinforcements, rebel fighters crashed through the gates of Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's fortresslike compound on Tuesday, running madly across its sprawling lawns, ransacking its barracks for weapons and carting off mementos of his 42-year dictatorship.

• Libyan rebels storm seat of Gaddafi power

  Hundreds of Libyan rebels stormed Muammar Gaddafi's compound on Tuesday, charging wildly through the symbolic heart of the crumbling regime as they killed loyalist troops, looted armories and knocked the head off a statue of the besieged dictator. But they found no sign of the man himself.

• Blasts rock Libyan capital in area of Gaddafi compound

  NATO fighter planes struck the Libyan capital, hitting the Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gadhafi's headquarters in Bab al-Aziziyah in Tripoli in the early hours of Saturday morning.

• NATO pounds area near Gaddafi's compound

  NATO on Thursday pounded the area near Muammar Gaddafi's compound during a pre-dawn raid in the Libyan capital Tripoli.A series of thunderous booms rumbled in quick succession shortly before 5 am, rattling windows in the heart of the city. A column of smoke could be seen rising from the vicinity of the Libyan leader's Bab al-Aziziya compound as sir...

• Libya: NATO air strikes destroy Gaddafi's compound

  NATO airstrikes targeted the centre of Moammar Gaddafi's seat of power early Monday, unleashing guided bombs that destroyed a multi-storey library and office in his compound and badly damaged a reception hall for visiting dignitaries.A security official said four people were slightly hurt. Dust was still rising from the rubble when reporters arrive...

• Allied attack continues despite destroying Gaddafi's palace

  Anti aircraft gunfire echoed around the Libyan capital for a third night on Monday.Arcs of tracer fire in the sky above Tripoli marked what appeared to be the start of a another night of coalition attacks.International forces intend to extend a no-fly zone to Tripoli, hundreds of miles distant from the area of recent fighting between forces loyal t...

• Target in Libya is clear, intent is not

  All the deliberations over what military action to take against Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi of Libya have failed to answer the most fundamental question: Is it merely to protect the Libyan population from the government, or is it intended to fulfill President Obama's objective declared two weeks ago that Colonel Gaddafi "must leave"? "We are not going ...

• Libya air strikes: Gaddafi's personal compound in Tripoli hit

  American and European militaries intensified their barrage of Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's forces by air and sea on Sunday, as the mission moved beyond taking away his ability to use Libyan airspace, to obliterating his hold on the ground as well, allied officials said. Rebel forces, battered and routed by loyalist fighters just the day before, began ...

• At Gaddafi compound, a human shield

  Even as the allied intervention began, a group of foreign journalists were bused on a rare visit inside Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's compound -- a labyrinth of concrete barracks, fortified walls and barbed wire designed to deter potential military coups.There, hundreds of supporters offered themselves up as human shields, cheering to newly minted danc...