this is not what this conflict is about. it s a fight it s a tale of two cities. tripoli is fighting for its life. ben gaz si a relatively free city. and this fight between the new libya living on hope and the old libya, sanctions don t apply to it. i was sitting there watching gadhafi s son, safe, who is the most presentable of all the thuggish sons and the most polished, who does try to represent himself and has for years tried to represent to the world as the new libya. but he is as thuggish in the end, fouad, as the representatives of the old regime. i think these people, the house of gadhafi, they ve crossed the rubicon. there are no more meetings in new york. they can t come to universities and be wined and dined. this is over. they are now fighting for their
images. we have no reliable casualty figures either from that incident or many others across tripoli. the terrible truth is we simply do not know and we do not know what happens to the people in these video clips. to the badly wounded protesters like this man here. or elsewhere to this injured mercenary, this is a remarkable moment, though. you see a mercenary apparently a foreigner in camouflage, the man on top of him, apparently shielding him, covering him with his body. he and a small circle of protesters protecting this mercenary from the angry mob. protecting a man who just moments before was apparently roaming the streets with orders to kill. keeping them honest, orders from the man who showed up today in tripoli s green square with his henchmen and promised to open up his arsenals and turn libya into a red flame. translator: we are prepared to break any aggression by the people, the armed people and the time will come when all the
they speak of simply wanting a normal life. i just want to be a voice to be heard. i want people to know that we are we are here in libya, we want freedom, we want democracy, and we don t want gadhafi. one of the protesters in tripoli tonight. let s bring back in ben wedeman who is in benghazi, jill dougherty and fouad ajami, as well. fouad, as you watch a video like that, again, you hear these voices, what and as we go into this weekend, what are you going to be watching for in the hours and the days ahead? i was watching ben wedeman today and there was an image in a way that captured for me what the fight was about. ben wedeman was facing the camera and behind him this mass of people in benghazi. this is not egypt. this is a very sparsely populated country, a huge country. there was this big crowd in benghazi. behind them was the rolling sea on a stormy day.
get very bad here. anderson? ben, in terms of oil production, the east is vitally important. how much control do they have over the oil in the east in anti-gadhafi territory now? well, in the eastern part of the country, they have complete control over that oil. and there is a lot of pressure to completely cut it off. but i spoke with somebody in the committee that runs benghazi, and they said that just to strangle just to cut off the flow of funds to the government of tripoli, they would be more than happy to completely cut it off. but technically, it s a problem. some of these pipelines are so old, that if you stop pumping, they quickly become blocked with wax from the residue of the oil. so they have to maintain a certain level of production. but our understanding is that the workers in those oil fields and the engineers along the pipeline are fully in support of
the fact is, that he s helping the west turns to him and says we ll help you stop this. but of course, it s not going to work. professor, when you saw him speak today, you know him, you used to translate what he would say. what did you see when you saw that man, how did he seem to you? i ve been observing him very closely, and i m trying to read the signals from his face, from his hand gestures. this is a desperate man who is willing to go down with everybody else. he s not going to go down by himself. bob, how do you see this playing out? and what should viewers, what should we be watching for over the next 24, 48 hours? people inside the inner circle are hoping that there s somebody from outside that will come in and intervene. you know, the best thing that could happen if he were assassinated at this point. i see a spasm of violence in the retaking of tripoli.