<p>Libyan rebel fighters tear a green Libyan flag in the rebel headquarters at the former female military base in Tripoli, Libya, Monday.</p>
August 23, 2011
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August 23, 2011 9 p.m.
Rebels ready to seize power in Libya
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - The son and heir apparent of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Seif al-Islam, resurfaced free and defiant early Tuesday a day after rebels claimed to have captured him, boasting in a bizarre reappearance that his father's loyalists still control parts of Tripoli and would crush the rebellion.