Rebels sift through the Gaddafi family compound
In The Chaos of post-Gaddafi Tripoli, the surest way to find out where rebels and loyalists were still fighting was to go to a hospital and talk to the freshly wounded. At one hospital, correspondent Abigail Hauslohner and I were told about a massacre allegedly carried out by the dread Khamis Brigade--troops under the command of Khamis Gaddafi, the dictator's youngest son. We were directed to the brigade's biggest base in the city. There, in a warehouse, we found the charred remains of more than 50 people. Men from the neighborhood who had come to look around the compound were horrified...
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