This is the end of the game...

The unrest has now spread to Tripoli, after six days of violence in the east of the country...
Several hours after Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi's 1 AM televised speech on Monday morning, hundreds of demonstrators marched toward's the capital's Green Square, chanting slogans hostile to the regime.
Muammar Gaddafi, our leader, is leading the battle in Tripoli, and we are with him. The armed forces are with him. Tens of thousands are heading here to be with him. We will fight until the last man, the last woman, the last bullet, the Guide's son warned the nation.
Not only did the protesters not heed his words, but they seemed infuriated by them...
Young men armed themselves with chains around their knuckles, steel pipes and machetes, as well as police batons, helmets and rifles commandeered from riot squads. Security forces moved in, shooting randomly, wrote the NYT.
The People's Hall, Libya's Parliament, was torched, and the state television building attacked.
The mood is very tense here. We have heard that government buildings are on fire and locals are scared to leave their homes. Most foreigners are trying to leave, one hotel worker told The Guardian.
Protesters marching on Gaddafi's residence were targeted with live rounds, according to Aljazeera.
There are also reports that the Libyan Airforce is bombing targets in the capital...
The confrontation in Tripoli led to the deaths of at least 61 people, and maybe 200, the network indicated.
Benghazi, the nation's second largest city, has fallen, and is now under the control of the protesters...
Reinforcements sent to the city to assist the security forces entrenched in their military barracks defected to the opposition instead. The gunshots you hear are the gunshots of celebration, one Benghazi inhabitant told the NYT.
Other Libyan cities, such as Al Bayda and Sabha also appeared to be in the hands of demonstrators...
Support for Gaddadi continued ebbing on Monday.
The influential al-Warfalla and al-Zuwayya tribes condemned the regime's violent response to the demonstrations. We tell him (Gaddafi) to leave the country, a spokesman told Aljazeera...
A tribe in eastern Libya threatened to interrupt all oil exports to the west within twenty-four hours should the regime not cease all oppression of protesters, according to The Guardian.
The regime's dignitaries have also begun repudiating Gaddafi.
The Justice Minister and Libya's representative to the EU resigned on Monday.
Abdel Al-Howni, Libya's Arab League delegate, did likewise. I no longer have any links to this regime which has lost all legitimacy, he told new agencies.
Libya's ambassador to China followed suit...
This is the end of the game. The whole of the regime is crumbling. It will not be long before it is over, Libya's deputy ambassador to the UN, told Aljazeera.
Gaddafi's days are numbered.
The dictator assumed vicious and wanton violence would suffice to cow his people into submission.
It may have been a dangerous miscalculation.

Gaddafi's guards started shooting people in the second day and they shot two people only. We had on that day in Al Bayda city only 300 protesters. When they killed two people, we had more than 5,000 at their funeral, and when they killed 15 people the next day, we had more than 50,000 the following day. This means that the more Gaddafi kills people, the more people go into the streets, 
Ahmad Jibreel, a Libyan diplomat, told Aljazeera.
Yesterday, in Benghazi, Gaddafi's security forces shot and killed sixty mourners...
Later that evening, the city had fallen...
Now people are dying we've got nothing else to live for. 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, a blogger told The Guardian.
Fear, it seems, is changing sides.
The British Foreign Minister claims he has information indicating Gaddafi may be fleeing to Venezuela...
The Guide of the Revolution who was to fight until the last bullet may be reconsidering...
It would not be the first time a ruthless tyrant preferred to save his life, at the expense of his honor...    
(the photograph of protesters in Benghazi is by Alaguri/AP)