Moammar Gaddhafi is dead. His reign of terror is ended.

This week, Libyan rebels planted an Al Qaeda flag where the revolution began.

Two steps forward, one step back?

Either way, it's mission accomplished:

"It's great to be in Libya, free Libya," Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary general, told a media conference in the capital Tripoli.

"At midnight tonight a successful chapter in NATO history will come to an end. You have already started writing a new chapter in Libya's history," he said.

"We acted to protect you. Together we succeeded. Libya is finally free, from Benghazi to Brega, from Misrata to the Western Mountains and to Tripoli.