more confirmation from Libya

“Members of an army unit known as the ‘Thunderbolt’ squad had come to the hospital carrying wounded comrades, he said. The soldiers said they had defected to the cause of the protesters and had fought and defeated Gaddafi’s elite guards.

‘They are now saying that they have overpowered the Praetorian Guard and that they have joined the people’s revolt,’ another man at the hospital who heard the soldiers, lawyer Mohamed al-Mana, told Reuters by telephone.”

Tripoli itself is now filled with gunshots. How long can Qaddafi last? Not long, I think. These are amazing times in the region.