Top of the Hour: Rebels Take Gadhafi’s Compound, Morning Headlines

The Takeaway

“All tribes, men, women, and the armed masses – they should cleanse Tripoli from the traitors and rats,” a defiant Col. Moammar Gadhafi said in a taped message released this morning. Gadhafi called on his supporters to continue fighting the day after rebels stormed his compound, effectively ending his 42 year rule of Libya.

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