NTC fighters celebrate victory in Sirte, Tripoli celebrations

Описание: (20 Oct 2011) SHOTLIST
Sirte, Libya
1. Mid of celebrating NTC (National Transitional Council) fighter waving flag in street
2. NTC fighters embracing in street AUDIO: gunfire
3. Car-load full of NTC fighters celebrating, driving off
4. SOUNDBITE (English): Ahmed Afuturi, Benghazi Forces Field Commander:
"We have been there at the front, you know, the war it's finished. We're going to Misrata side and, you know, everything is OK, we make everything OK inside (Sirte) now."
5. NTC fighter dancing and chanting in street
6. Various of celebrating NTC fighter gathered together firing their guns in the air AUDIO: gunfire
7. Wounded man, claimed by the NTC forces to be a Gadhafi loyalist fighter, being led away
8. Group of prisoners, claimed by the NTC forces to be loyalist fighters, being led away at gunpoint with their hands bound behind their back
9. Various of uniforms, claimed by the NTC forces to have been abandoned by loyalist fighters
10. NTC vehicles driving off down road
11. NTC fighter waving flag in street
Sirte, Libya
12. NTC fighters celebrating tilt up to fireworks going off in the sky above
13. NTC fighters setting off fireworks tilt up to sky
14. NTC fighters gathered together for cameras, man holding up trophy and brandishing a butcher's cleaver
15. Mid of NTC fighter setting off fireworks
16. Various of NTC fighters stamping on and hacking with a knife at a Gadhafi-era flag on the ground
17. NTC fighter climbing light pole to hoist Libyan flag
18. NTC fighters burning a Gadhafi era flag
19. Libyan flags flying from light post
20. NTC fighters praying
21. NTC fighters gathered for the cameras firing their weapons as a man in front holds up a Libyan flag
Sirte, Libya
22. NTC fighters gather round covered dead body in back of vehicle
Sirte, Libya
23. NTC fighter firing heavy machine gun in the air
24. Female NTC fighter firing gun
Tripoli, Libya
25. Set up shot of the head of the Tripoli Military Council Abdelhakim Belhadj
26. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdelhakim Belhadj, Head of Tripoli Military Council:
"With this news we have done a great job, to liberate all the country, and Libya is now facing a big challenge to rebuild a new Libya".
Tripoli, Libya
27. Various of crowds chanting, singing and waving Libyan flags as they celebrate in Green Square
28. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Omar Hassan, Tripoli resident: ++NON-VERBATIM TRANSLATION++
"I am so happy to hear about the fall of Sirte, now Libya can be rebuilt."
29. Wide of street and crowd celebrating
STORYLINE
Libyan fighters drove the last loyalist forces of Moammar Gadhafi out of his hometown of Sirte in fierce gunbattles on Thursday, then declared victory over the final major resistance two months after the fall of Tripoli.
Officials in Libya's transitional government say Moammar Gadhafi has been captured and possibly killed in the fall of his hometown but there is no confirmation from the country's most senior leaders.
NATO says it hit a convoy of Gadhafi's loyalists fleeing Sirte on Thursday morning but it could not confirm whether the ousted Libyan leader was in the convoy or possibly killed or captured.
However, Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam says he has confirmed that Gadhafi was dead from fighters that said they saw the body.
He says he expects the prime minister to confirm the death soon, noting that past reports emerged "before making 100 percent confirmation."
Past reports of Gadhafi deaths or captures have later proven incorrect.
Some burned the green Gadhafi flag, then stepped on it with their boots.
he first kissed.

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