Libya rebels control closest city to capital

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TRIPOLI, Libya — Anti-government forces backed by rebel army troops were in control of the city closest to the capital Tripoli, The Associated Press reported on Sunday.

An AP reporter who arrived Sunday in Zawiya, 30 miles west of Tripoli, said forces loyal to longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi are surrounding the city of 200,000. But anti-government rebels and troops allied with them are in control of the city center.
Police stations and government offices have been torched and anti-Gadhafi graffiti is everywhere. Many buildings in the city were pockmarked by bullet holes.
"Gadhafi Out," chanted hundreds in the city center, where army tanks controlled by rebels are deployed.
Gadhafi loyalists remained in control of Tripoli.

Provisional government Meanwhile, Libyan cities under rebel control reportedly appointed an ex-justice minister to lead a provisional government as the embattled Libyan regime armed its civilian supporters.
Gadhafi opponents named Mustafa Abdel-Jalil to the provisional leadership post, Fathi Baja, a member of the Benghazi city council said.

Abdel-Jalil was chosen by the committees running the eastern Libyan cities now in the rebellion's hands, Baja said.

On Saturday, Libya's top envoy to the U.S. also said Gadhafi opponents were rallying behind efforts to form an alternative government led by Abdel-Jalil, who has criticized Gadhafi's brutal crackdown on protesters.
It was not immediately clear how much support the proposed provisional leadership commands.
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama called on Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to leave power immediately, saying he has lost the legitimacy to rule with his violent crackdown on his own people.
With that shift Saturday, Obama dropped the careful condemnation, threats of consequences and the reminders to Gadhafi's regime about its responsibility to avoid violence.