Rebel fighters gesture as they stomp on a part of a statue of Muammar Gaddafi inside the main compound in Bab Al-Aziziya in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. Gaddafi had the statue of a fist crushing an American plane installed in front of the house after it was bombed in 1986.
Rebel fighters trample on the head of a Muammar Gadhafi statue inside the main compound.
Rebel fighters seen inside. "This is Gaddafi's Pentagon," Noman Benotman, a British think-tanker and former Libyan Islamist opposition guerrilla commander, said.
Rebel supporters celebrate the successful attack on the heart of the Gaddafi regime, though by Tuesday there was still no sign of the colonel.
Rebel fighters carry out stuff in the main Muammar Gaddafi compound.
People carry off a portrait of Muammar Gaddafi inside a hotel in Tripoli.
A rebel fighter gestures as he stands on a monument inside the Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli Tuesday.
