According to NBC News:
Rebel forces gained "full control" over Moammar Gadhafi's fortified Bab al-Aziziya compound in Libya's capital Tuesday.
The compound, which was heavily damaged by NATO airstrikes, had emerged as one of the last centers of government resistance.
"Strategically, this means that Tripoli has fallen," NBC's Richard Engel said from inside the compound.
An Associated Press reporter at the scene said the compound's green gates were blasted open, allowing hundreds of rebels poured into the complex, some driving golf carts as the area resounded with celebratory gunfire.
It was not immediately clear whether Gadhafi or members of his immediate family were in the compound when it was breached by the rebels, but the ferocity of the battle led many to speculate that the maverick leader may have been inside.
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