The Guardian reports that "on the road from Benghazi to Tripoli, evidence of the dictator's demise includes sacked barracks and official buildings burned."
Most telling: citizens are talking about Qaddafi in the past tense.
... Faraj Ali, 44, joined us. "Everywhere is the same between here and Sirte and between Sirte and Tripoli. He is finished. He can never come back."
All along the red desert highway, the Observer encountered further evidence to support Faraj Ali's claims. We stopped next at al-Bregga, an oil enclave at Libya's southernmost coastal point. Gaddafi kept a house here and a row of guest homes either side. They have all been pillaged. The dictator's bedroom received the most attention. "We threw in an extra bomb for him," said Khaled Yousef, a local who now proudly walked through the scorched remains of the loathed leader, carrying a Russian machine gun that he looted from the army.
"He was a criminal and a terrorist and he had one of these homes every 100km," he added. That may account for the modest furnishings – those that could still be made out amid the ashes. It was where Victorian England clashed with Arab chic. By all accounts it wasn't one of his favourites.
