Community | August 23, 2011 | 6 comments

Is Lybia's Rixos Hotel Qaddafi's end game?

source: http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-national/is-lybia-s-rixos-hotel-qaddafi-s-end-game

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Yesterday, I published an appeal which was sent to me as well as other subscribers to the news organization, Voltaire, which was being widely circulated, and which stated that two of its collaborators in Libya's Rixos hotel had been threatened with death. The Rixos Hotel is where most foreign journalists 'hang out' , but have been unable to exit the hotel due to heavy combat in and around the area.

We also were misinformed when we were told that Qaddafi's sons had been captured and then released. It appears now, 24 hours after some premature celebration of Saif al-Islam's so called capture, that he is alive and well and that Qaddafi's forces still hold pockets of the capital. However, one fact remains: no one can ascertain the colonel's whereabouts.

As of this writing, we have seen rebel forces enter and occupy Qaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya military compound, a residence/fortress that comprises no less than 20 miles of underground tunnels leading to various parts of the city. It is likely that one of these tunnels would lead to the Rixos Hotel, which, at times, has served as an informal command or communications center, with state-run TV broadcasting from its studio there or members of the Qaddafi family occasionally holing up.

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