"Libyan territory is 90 to 95 percent under the control of the rebellion," Colonel Abdullah Abu Afra said.[break]
"The fall of Bab al-Aziziyah marked the end of the Kadhafi regime in Tripoli and in Libya," Afra said, referring to Kadhafi´s Tripoli compound.
"Moamer Kadhafi is now part of the past, and of history," he said.
But while Bab al-Aziziya has been captured, fighting still raged near the compound on Wednesday, as loyalist forces fought back against a rebel offensive that has seized most of the capital.
The whereabouts of the strongman himself and his family remained a mystery on Wednesday. Rebel fighters said they had found no trace of Kadhafi when they swarmed through his compound the day before.
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