More conflicting information: Reuters, this morning
A Tripoli resident, who did not want to be identified, told Reuters the streets of the capital were calm early on Monday morning but that there was no sign of police, which is unusual for the city.
He said that late on Sunday night anti-Gaddafi protesters had been replaced by his supporters, who rallied in the center of the city around Green Square until about 5 a.m. (0400 GMT).
“After Saif al-Islam’s speech, the pro-Gaddafi people, especially the youth, were touring the streets, particularly in the center, cheering Gaddafi. These people stayed up the whole night, they were marching all night, some driving in cars.
“They were in Green Square and along Omar al-Mokthar street. I would say there were hundreds,” he said.
“I talked to someone near the square where the clashes were taking place and he told me it was quiet and they (anti-government demonstrators) have now departed.
“Last night during the rioting there were police around and they were shooting into the air. But after that there have been no police around,” added the Tripoli resident. – Reuters
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Saeed Ahmed – Supervising News Editor at CNN Wire tweeted this
Libyan State TV currently (11:12am) showing what appears to be a live feed from some square of hundreds of pro-Gaddafi supporters cheering and waving green flags while two talking heads in the studio look on with big smiles.
It appears that rumours of Gaddafi’s regime’s demise were, to say the least, premature.
Tonio Borg speaks to BBC World News (UK time)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
1024: More from Malta’s Tonio Borg, who says if people start to leave Libya because of the unrest, his country will struggle to cope: “We saw what happened in Tunisia where, because of the instability, you had 5,000 immigrants arriving in five days on Lampedusa, and just to give you an impression, one migrant who arrives in Malta is like 150 who arrive in Sicily or, proportionately, 200 who arrive in Germany.”
1016: Malta’s Foreign Minister, Tonio Borg, who is also in Brussels, says Malta, as a neighbour of Libya, is concerned with what is happening there: “I think that would create instability in the region and therefore I also think that the European Union should be in favour of the territorial integrity of Libya as well as whatever happens in the future,” he said.
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