27 June 2011 Last updated at 12:38 ET
By Bridget Kendall
BBC News, Benghazi
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Many in the rebels' eastern stronghold seem impatient to see their former leader brought to justice, not just for his attempts to crush their uprising in February, but also for what they remember as brutal oppression by his regime for more than 40 years.
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Meanwhile, their own forces are moving towards Tripoli from the south. And out of the besieged capital is streaming a steady flow of high level defectors.
The rebel leadership says there is still a plan to advance on Tripoli from all sides, squeeze Col Gaddafi's supporters, and undermine him through uprisings from within the city.
But they also seem to be hoping they can avoid a final military showdown, and instead force the Libyan leader out of office without more bloodshed.
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Others fear he has ordered diehard loyalists to organise the sort of devastation on the city's infrastructure as he apparently planned - but failed to carry out - in Benghazi.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13932821
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