The Shores Of Tripoli
Damien McElroy surveys post-Gaddafi Libya for the Telegraph/UK:

Mohammad al-Bari, a former Libyan ambassador to Switzerland, had ventured out to a street corner after his nephew in America called to ask him to pick up some souvenirs. He had three large-calibre brass bullet casings in his hands.

Mr Bari, who retired in the 2007, said the uprising against Col Gaddafi was long overdue. "I had seen this coming. It should have happened in the 1980s but Gaddafi had the security to prevent it. I met him several times and he has a very cruel heart. He could hang on even as the people's anger rose and rose."

As the battles rolled only Green Square, now popularly known as Martyrs Square, had a morning after feeling. Shreds of Gaddafi posters blew in the wind. A few hardy spectators who had not ventured out the night before stood in its Italianate colonnades.
They were free spoken in their condemnation of Col Gaddafi. "Game over," said Abdullah Mohammad, a retired banker. "Its 99 per cent over but whatever happens he's finished."

Two weeks ago men and women spoke in riddles when asked about the situation facing the country. Now every circumstance offered an opportunity to condemn the man who been the revolutionary "guide" of the nation since 1969.

...A rebel flag hung over the space that Col Gaddafi sat under to take the salute at the military parade to mark his September 1 coup.

The idea that Col Gaddafi was trapped underground was also rich with irony, he said.

"He called us rats, accused us of using drugs and being fanatical Muslims. Now he is underground scurrying for his life and we, the good people, are going to do our best to build a modern country open to the world."

We'll see. Modern or Muslim Brotherhood? Predictions?

*The title of this blog post comes from the song, which comes from the war -- the U.S. versus the Barbary Pirates:

The First Barbary War (1801-5), also known as the Barbary Coast War or the Tripolitan War, was the first of two wars fought between the United States and the North African Berber Muslim states known collectively as the Barbary States. These included the quasi-independent Sultanates in the middle and western coastal regions of North Africa--what is now Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya.