Rebels: headquarters to be moved to Tripoli

Libyan rebel fighters celebrate after they entered the Bab al Aziziya compound in Tripoli August 23, 2011. [Xinhua/Reuters Photo]

Tuesday's TV footage of al-Jazeera showed that rebels swarmed into the huge compound and looted sniper rifles and other weapons from an armory inside the once heavily-fortified stronghold of the Libyan strongman.

And jubilant rebel fighters were seen roaming in front of a building damaged in a U.S. bomb attack decades ago, a symbol of Gaddafi's defiance to the West.

Libyan rebel military spokesman Col. Ahmed Bani said Tuesday that the NTC was to move its headquarters from Benghazi to the capital Tripoli within two days, the pan-Arab al-Jazeera TV reported.

NTC members are also expected to hold a summit with representatives from the United States, France, Italy, Britain, Turkey and Qatar in the Qatari capital of Doha on Wednesday to discuss the reconstruction of war-torn Libya, Chairman of NTC's Executive Bureau Mahmoud Jibril said Tuesday.