Continue reading the main story Libya Revolt BBC team’s ordeal Options for intervention Uprising in maps Eyewitness: Tense days in Tripoli Colonel Muammar Gaddafi remains resolutely in power – at least in parts of the country – and appears to be making gains against rebel forces. The BBC’s Caroline Hawley asks if the conflict in Libya is looking increasingly like a civil war rather than a rebellion. Twenty-eight days after Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to himself and sparked the Tunisian uprising, President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali had fled into exile in Saudi Arabia. It took just 18 days of street protests to force Hosni Mubarak to step down and…
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