Lindsey Hilsum
Libyans hope for law and order as country is torn apart
Today’s attack on the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, is a symbol of the anarchy that has come to characterise the country.
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‘Zawiyah – the most destroyed town I’ve seen’
Lindsey Hilsum reports on the devastation visited upon the coastal town of Zawiyah as rebels press on to Tripoli.
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Libyan rebels fly flag in key town of Zawiyah
Anti-Gaddafi forces enter the city of Zawiyah, a key strategic target just 30 miles from the embattled dictator’s stronghold in Tripoli.
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Zawiyah out of bounds on the road to Gaddafi's Tripoli
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs from Tripoli as the government presents pro-Gadaffi unity to journalists while embattled Zawiya is out of bounds.
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Rebel graves bulldozed over in Zawiyah
Rebel graves bulldozed over in Zawiyah: “But the apparent desecration of the graves is what disturbs me most. I asked a man with deadened eyes where the dead people had gone. “No people,” he insisted repeatedly, before walking away.”
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Gaddafi’s forces erase all traces of rebels in Zawiyah
Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Rugman is taken on a press trip to Zawiyah – previously held by rebels but now under the control of Gaddafi’s forces.
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LIVE BLOG: Libya crisis – the battle for Zawiyah
The latest updates, video and #c4news tweets from Libya as pro-Gaddafi forces fight rebels in Zawiyah, Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawad.
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Libya: Gaddafi forces and rebels battle for Zawiyah
Heavy fighting is raging between government forces and rebels for control of the western city of Zawiyah, while in the east anti-Gaddafi fighters are pushing on to the Colonel’s home town of Sirte.
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Lindsey Hilsum
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Gaddafi loyalists ‘re-take former stronghold’
Fighters loyal to Libya’s overthrown leader Muammar Gaddafi took control of a town south east of the capital on Monday, flying their green flags in defiance of the country’s fragile new government.
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Abdullah: A-level results and the toppling of tyrants
“I joined the Libyan revolution, and toppled Colonel Gaddafi after 42 years of dictatorship. But only after getting my A-levels out of the way,” 18 year old Abdullah tells me.
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How do you travel around a war zone?
People often ask me how we survive in war zones, where we sleep and eat, how we travel. Well, in western Libya it’s not easy – but neither is it impossible.
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Rebels launch Operation Mermaid to take Tripoli
Libya’s six month bloody uprising reaches Tripoli, as rebels launch an intense assault towards Gaddafi’s stronghold.
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Libyan rebels take Gharyan on their advance towards Tripoli
The Libyan capital is now cut off to the west at Zawiyah and to the south at the garrison town of Gharyan, from where our International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports.
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Libya rebels make gains towards Tripoli
Libyan rebels take control of an oil refinery in the town of Zawiyah just thirty miles west of the capital Tripoli, in a strategic and psychological blow to Colonel Gaddafi’s forces.
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Libya: Rebels close in on Tripoli
Six months after the war began Libyan rebels seem to be closing in on Tripoli. But would the fall of the capital lead, as one Libyan activist claims, to a “peaceful implosion” of the regime?
