Colonel Gaddafi’s strength appears to be diminishing: Foreign Office sources
suggest that the latest YouTube footage suggests that the rebels are now 30 miles from Tripoli, there are reports of Libyan servicemen spiking their guns rather than fire on their
compatriots and members of the Gaddafi family have failed to present a united front to the dissent that intends to depose them.
But, chaos thy name is Libya. Communications have long been silent, except for the savage drone of state radio, conduit for Gaddafi’s prophesies of victory or martyrdom. Evacuees from Tripoli’s now hellish airport relate a city bristling with arms and testosterone – the fear is that Gaddafi and his dogs of war are sufficiently mad to fight to the last bullet. Tanks are parked in the suburbs, waiting.
Elsewhere, order has collapsed and the economy has shut down.
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