*Update 1* (Daily Mail) — Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is believed to have fled the capital Tripoli after anti-government demonstrators breached the state television building and set government property alight.  Protesters appear to have gained a foothold in Tripoli as banks and government buildings were looted while demonstrators have claimed they have taken control of the second city Benghazi. 
It is thought up to 400 people may have died in the unrest with dozens more reported killed in Tripoli overnight as protests reached the capital for the first time and army units were said to have defected to the opposition.  The building where the General People’s Congress, or parliament, meets when it is in session in Tripoli was on fire on Monday morning, a Reuters reporter said.  (Daily Mail Article)
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Trying to get information on the uprising in Libya is very difficult, almost impossible.  However, for those of you following events here is a recap of information I have been able to scour up.   Libya’s official name is the Jamahiriya, or “state of the masses”, but 41 years after seizing power, a defiant Muammar Gaddafi still rules through secretive decision-making and as a family enterprise in which his sons play leading roles.Now facing the worst unrest since the revolution, Gaddafi’s moves are as opaque as ever. Amid feverish speculation about the future, everything he has ever done suggests he will not relinquish power voluntarily. “We will all die on Libyan soil,” sources close to his family told the Saudi paper al-Sharq al-Awsat.
According to unconfirmed reports the repression in Benghazi in eastern Libya is being led by his son Khamis, the Russian-trained commander of an elite special forces unit. Another son, Saadi, is there too, with Abdullah al-Senussi, veteran head of military intelligence.
Last Friday Gaddafi appeared briefly in central Tripoli to cheers from supporters but has not spoken in public or left the heavily-guarded Bab al-Aziziya barracks in the centre of the capital – the target of a US bombing raid in 1986.
The crushing of protests in Benghazi and elsewhere bears the hallmark of his instinctive brutality when faced with challenges to his rule, analysts say.  In the 1980s he sent hit squads to murder exiled “stray dogs” who challenged the revolution. Islamist rebels at home were crushed in the 1990s and in 1996 1,000 prisoners were gunned down in an infamous prison massacre.  “For Gaddafi it’s kill or be killed,” said opposition writer Ashour Shamis. “Now he’s gone straight for the kill.”
The uprisings in neighbouring countries do not appear to have shaken his resolve to stay in power. He sent messages of support to Tunisia’s Zine al-Abdine Ben Ali and to Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak before they stepped down.   Regime survival has marked Gaddafi’s moves in recent years – from the handover of the Lockerbie bombing suspects to the surrender of his WMD programme after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. No-one expects him to give up peacefully. He may make gestures such as promising closer consultation or boosting investment in housing and social services, but that seems unlikely to satisfy protesters after such brutality towards ordinary Libyans.
“Gaddafi will find it hard to make concessions in order to survive,” said Sir Richard Dalton, a former British ambassador to Libya. “The attitude of the regime is that it’s all or nothing.”  Another key question is whether the condemnation of western friends will have any effect. Libya’s warning to the EU that it will halt cooperation over illegal immigration suggests it will not.  Power in Libya is devolved in some areas to popular committees and there is sometimes talk of dramatic restructuring of government. But all key policy areas – defence, foreign affairs, and security – are firmly in Gaddafi’s hands.

Like Mubarak, the Libyan leader has no designated successor. Gaddafi’s advice is likely to be coming from his son Muatassim, his national security adviser and leading contender to succeed him. Two years ago Muatassim tried to set up another special unit to rival the one commanded by Khamis.   In recent months both have seemed more powerful than another brother, the reformist Saif al-Islam. Saif focused on civil society and political and economic reform but has taken a back seat in the face of opposition from the old guard and the revolutionary committees. “Creating the appearance of useful employment for Gaddafi’s offspring has been an important objective for the regime,” reported the US ambassador in a cable released by WikiLeaks.
Other sons have embarrassed their father. Saadi is notoriously ill-behaved, with a record of scuffles with police in Europe, abuse of drugs and alcohol. Hannibal’s misbehaviour in Geneva caused a long rupture in Swiss-Libyan relations.   “Gaddafi is a complicated individual who has managed to stay in power for 40 years through a skilful balancing of interests and realpolitik methods,” commented the former US ambassador Gene Cretz. Libya’s current crisis looks like Gaddafi’s biggest challenge yet.
In fast-moving developments after midnight, demonstrators were reported to be in Tripoli’s Green Square and preparing to march on Gaddafi’s compound as rumours spread that the leader had fled to Venezuela. Other reports described protesters in the streets of Tripoli throwing stones at billboards of Muammar Gaddafi while police used teargas to try to disperse them.
“People are in the street chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is great) and throwing stones at photos of Gaddafi,”an expatriate worker told Reuters by telephone from Tripoli. “The police are firing teargas everywhere, it’s even getting into the houses.”
Libya’s extraordinary day overshadowed drama elsewhere in the region. Tensions eased in Bahrain after troops withdrew from a square in Manama occupied by Shia protesters. Thousands of security personnel were also deployed in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to forestall an opposition rally. Elsewhere in the region unrest hit Yemen, Morocco, Oman, Kuwait and Algeria.

• (Reuters)
  The eyes of the world were on Benghazi and elsewhere in eastern Libya where shocked witnesses spoke of “massacres” and described corpses shot in the head, chest or neck piling up in hospitals running short of blood and medicines.
• According to a Reuters report, Libyan soldiers said they had defected and were joining the protests.
• An intelligence source reported that 150 soldiers and officers who disobeyed orders and refused to shoot at protestors would be executed.
• Estimates of the total number of fatalities over six days of unprecedented unrest ranged from 233 – the latest figure given by Human Rights Watch – to 285. But some opposition sources gave figures as high as 500.
• Two of Gaddafi’s other sons, Khamis and Saadi, and intelligence chief Abdullah Sanussi were reportedly commanding efforts to crush the protests in Benghazi, where buildings were ransacked and troops and police forced to retreat to a compound to pick off demonstrators with sniper and artillery fire.
• As-Sharq al-Awsat, the Saudi newspaper, quoted sources close to the Gaddafi family as saying they would “die on Libyan soil” rather than give up power like the presidents of Egypt and Tunisia.
• Facts were hard to pin down in the face of a news blackout that included jamming of the signal of the al-Jazeera TV network and interference with telephone and internet connections.
• But there were multiple claims of the army firing into crowds and the targeting of mourners at the funerals of those killed on Saturday.
• The Libya al-Yawm news website quoted one local doctor as saying that 285 people had died in Benghazi alone.
• “Now people are dying we’ve got nothing else to live for,” a student blogger told the Guardian.
• “It’s like a pressure cooker. People are boiling up inside. I’m not even afraid any more. Once I wouldn’t have spoken at all by phone. Now I don’t care.”

(The Guardian UK) In other signs of mounting domestic anger at Gaddafi, Libya’s representative to the Arab League, Abdel Monein al-Honi, announced that he was resigning in protest at the suppression of the unrest. Libya’s ambassador to China, Hussein Sadiq al-Musrati, resigned on air while on al-Jazeera Arabic, calling on the army to intervene, and urged all diplomatic staff to resign. In another striking development, the leader of a powerful tribe in eastern Libya warned that oil exports to the west – vital for the country’s economy – would be halted within 24 hours unless the authorities stopped the “oppression of protesters”.
The US, Britain and the EU expressed concern at the escalation in violence, but no punitive measures were announced. On Friday the UK revoked licences for the export of riot control equipment. Libya yesterday warned the EU it would halt co-operation over illegal immigration unless the EU stopped supporting protests.
The regime, once treated as a pariah, has been embraced by western countries hungry for oil and lucrative business opportunities since Gaddafi abandoned his support for terrorism but there has been very little easing of domestic repression.
William Hague, the foreign secretary, spoke to Saif al-Islam and “expressed alarm at reports of large numbers of people being killed or attacked by Libyan security forces … The foreign secretary strongly encouraged the Libyan government to embark on dialogue and implement reforms.” Gaddafi’s son showed few signs that he had been persuaded in the rambling TV address he gave later.
Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya, writes: “Assuming that the Libyan protesters have the stamina and determination of those in Tunisia and Egypt , even in the face of gunfire, the resolution of the conflict seems to depend on two factors: will the disturbances spread to the different urban environment of Tripoli?
“And will the army – composed of Libyans, not foreign mercenaries, and therefore open to tribal influences which are largely unknown – continue to be willing to fire on unarmed civilians?”
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This one is’nt going to be like Egypt or Tunisia.  Gadaffi is a brutal nut-case, a pure power mongerer, and he is very very comfortable with terroristic behavior against his own people.  He will command his military to open fire on them in a second.  Actually, I think he already has.  He and his sons are either going to kill the uprising or the tribal groups are going to collectively hunt them down and kill them.  Gadaffi is not mentally stable at all.  (Remember this one) He has very bizzarre behaviors and mannerisms.  Definately not stable minded. 
Again, accurate fact based information is really difficult to find.  The U.S. media is litterally blacked-out on events in Libya.  Most information I can find is coming out of europe.  If you have any links or sources of information please provide them in the comments section and I will follow up.  Thanks…. /SD