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rts that Gaddafi had fled his country grew to the point that he made a bizarre appearance on state television in the early hours of Tuesday. As rain fell in Tripoli, he appeared getting out of a car, gripping an umbrella. “I am in Tripoli, and not in Venezuela,” he said during the brief appearance.

Earlier, there were street celebrations in Benghazi, where anti-government demonstrators had reportedly taken control of the city from the Libyan security forces. Even there, buildings smoldered, plumes of black smoke rising to the sky. Sirens from ambulances melded with the sound of gun battles throughout the day.

It was impossible to verify the scope or precise details of the events unfolding in Libya, an oil-rich North African nation. Foreign journalists have been denied visas, and Internet access, phone service and other forms of communications have been largely cut. But in interviews with Libyan residents, exiles, diplomats, as well as in videos posted online, a picture emerged of a nation in the throes of the bloodiest revolution to so far emerge from the populist upheavals sweeping across the Middle East and North Africa.