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Senate floor and let them vote for it. >> i agree. this is really some great theater to see these republican senators out there after what the house members got out on the road the last few days. make them come back and pony up to it or distance themselves from it. here is the other thing. what does muddy the waters mean in your opinion? what do you think their strategy is rig >> well, to deflect attention t going on the counter attack. thats really what it means. what is most interesting is eve...

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Counter attack moving rockets and heavy equipment toward brega, a key oil town. the opposition offers conditions for a cease-fire. rebels say they will stop fighting if the governments military forces withdraw from the cities allowing peaceful protests against the regime. in the meantime the u.s. plans to pull out all of its planes out of that war zone by tomorrow allowing nato to handle any air strikes. conor powell is streaming to us live in tover libya now. connor. >> reporter: good afternoon...

Wall of fire, not just artillery but coming from local armed m militia. this was clearly gadhafi country they had entered. this counter attack in ras lanouf. losing all of those gains they made. here is the interesting thing. nato claims while all of this was going on, they did not engage gadhafi troops or tanks at all along that coastal road. maybe they are trying to avoid being called the rebel air force. they dont want to show they are taking sides, which they said they are not. nato official...

Maps. even if the rebels were armed and we had this training, you cant quit fighting. tell us where we are right now. richard mentioned that suddenly today no air support. >> back and forth has been wholly a function of how much air support has been available. at the beginning the rebels went very far. the counter attack went very far back. more air support came in and the liinof air support, khaddafis forces drove them back again. >> that is a shocking picture when you literally see them gettin...

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Newly formed national council. however, we did just hear from our nic robertson in tripoli who spoke with people within gadhafis government that these -- this offer is basically baseless. i just went back and spoke with some people who were very close to the opposition bringing them this information. they said they were not all that surprised believing that gadhafi is up to some sort of a trick. that hes up to basically his old tactics of trying to, perhaps, appease the opposition and then maybe...

>> gadhafi army are attacking his people with his planes. >> reporter: the target was these men, a collection of soldiers who have gone over to the opposition and volunteer fighters gathering to launch a counter attack against government forces which early wednesday overran the town of el braga, site of one of libyas largest oil refineries. >> stop, okay, good-bye. >> reporter: strategizing is done on the run. in addition to control of the skies, the enemy has far more fire power. >> translator:...

Counter attack, they would have no way to see it coming. number three, this is something to keep in mind over the next couple of days. their communication systems are entirely based on cell phones. and as you may guess here in libya, the cell phone companies are owned by none other than colonel gadhafis son and as you might think, sheppard, as these rebels continue to march, if they get closer to tripoli, there is certainly the possibility that those cell phone towers could be turned off, leavin...

And this fighting is creeping towards the capital of tripoli, which is starting to have a feel, really, of being -- they are still firmly in control of that town, though theyre worried there might be a counter-attack after friday prayers. chuck, savannah, back to you. >> on the tunisian side of the libyan border. the president has reached out to france, italy and the u.k. hoping to reach a united front of the special sessions today in the united nations and nato. there is a full array of options...