reporter: from his house bombed by the americans in the 80s next to a monument of a golden fix crushing a warplane. said they ve been oisonned by enemies who gave them hallucination pills and alcohol. said he d become a martyr before he left power. it was vintage moammar gadhafi. translator: in cannot be stopped by those agents, those rats, those cats who move in the dark. reporter: u.s. security officials say the speech came as he effectively lost control of the city of benghazi and other areas of eastern libya. his apparent disconnect doesn t surprise this man, professor at georgetown university s center for contemporary arab studies. does this man comprehend at all what s going on in his country? not at all. he s out of touch, off base and for the simple reason he didn t understand like people are rejecting his regime completely. reporter: why do you think they re rejecting him at this point? because he didn t offer to them anything. he offered to them nepotism,