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Tripoli waits for 'big fight'

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Forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi appear determined to fight to the last, despite the fact that rebel forces now control most of the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports on a city which is heavily armed, very divided and extremely dangerous.

And Shashank Joshi of the Royal United Services Institute assesses how this complicates a post-Gaddafi settlement.


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