The Libyan Rebels Take Control of The Tripoli International Airport

The libyan rebels were assured that took control “total” of the Tripoli international airport and the neighboring town of Qasr bin Ghashir, located about 30 kilometers to the south of the libyan capital.
The residents of Qasr bin Ghashir held their victory by firing into the air and bang portraits of Gaddafi with their shoes. The regime’s forces had been attacking the airport from there. Three civilian aircraft were completely destroyed.
“You might say that bin Ghashir has been released from the soldiers of Gaddafi”, said Omar al-Ghuzayl, a rebel commander of 45 years now in charge of the forces in the capital’s airport. “We have been able evict them completely from Tripoli”.
The celebration reflected the optimism of the rebels after days of intense fighting in the capital, which now seems to be mostly under rebel control.
Simultaneously, the rebels were fighting to take control of a vital route for supplies to Tripoli after occupy a strategic crossing border with Tunisia. The coastal route between Ras ajdir and capital is vital in times of increasing scarcity of fuel and food.
Although the fighting has subsided, a large part of the capital remained without electricity or water. The streets are filled with vehicles calcined and heaps of garbage; accumulate corpses in abandoned hospitals, the shops are closed and there are planes useless in the airport runway at Tripoli.
Meanwhile, in a crossing of streets of Qasr ben Ghashir, a crowd celebrated the “liberation”, chanting “Gaddafi is ended for ever”, found a journalist of the AFP. “Yesterday at night, between 60 and 80 cars of the battalion of khamis gaddafi”, one of the sons of Muammar Gaddafi, they left the area and “escaped”, said Moktar Lakder, commander of the rebellion.
Several villagers confirmed that vehicles from supporters of Qaddafi had been withdrawn, some “with heavy weapons”.
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