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>> anthony: impossible. >> johar: yeah. and now, its normal. >> anthony: oh, thats nice. >> johar: how you found it? >> anthony: spicy and delicious. bismillah. >> johar: bismillah. >> anthony: johar, like many libyans his age, fought to overthrow gaddafi. he was there, gun in hand, when they stormed gaddafis palace compound. happy? excited? >> johar: in the fighting? >> anthony: it was a good day? yeah. >> johar: its give it to me nice feeling. nice feeling. the gaddafi, hes killed my cousin. h...

For a better country. for a better life. >> anthony: you have a future now. before, people -- >> omar: yeah. >> anthony: you know what people say. >> omar: there was no future in libya before gaddafis regime. were not going to sugarcoat it. we were slaves for the gaddafi. >> anthony: oh, this looks good. >> omar: yeah, it is. >> anthony: barracuda is a seafood restaurant just outside of town, on the mediterranean coast. >> omar: one of the best foods in libya, i think, the seafood. >> anthony: t...

>> man 1: i would drop the camera pretty soon. >> man 2: yeah, yeah. >> man 1: stop the camera. stop that. >> man 2: oh. >> anthony: pulling into town after dark, it doesnt feel like a happy place to be right now. misrata was where some of the fiercest and most heroic struggles of the war occurred. resistance was the most determined, and the response by the gaddafi forces, especially merciless. weve just learned that earlier in the day a city councilman who was a hero of the revolution was assas...

This is whats left of gaddafis palace. ♪ so whens the last time you were here? >> man 1: last time is when the revolution is finishing. the machine is going in first fighting. >> anthony: right. >> man 1: after that, the people. >> anthony: right. >> man 1: is whos have the guns. after then, coming a lot of people, normal people, listening about something expensive here. >> anthony: right. >> man 1: like the salt, and like the gold, and -- >> anthony: pardon? >> man 2: stop, stop now. stop now...

The end of this son of a bitch? most people are telling me they never dreamed. >> akram: i dont know if you can call them dreams, hopes, wishes. it was just something in the sky. something i look at every night. >> anthony: right. >> akram: but when i hit that point and got into misrata and stood on gaddafis body, any dream will come true. >> anthony: whats the situation now? >> akram: uh, its fluid. it can swing any direction. >> anthony: well, look, what happened in benghazi a few months ago, ...

Is hunting down former gaddafi supporters. so the gaddafi forces rolled in. they would use these tanks to fire on -- >> hamid: around the city. >> anthony: around. >> hamid: yeah. it was full of, uh, tanks here. this was the operation room here. ♪ >> anthony: now, if you had any doubt about the terrible odds these young revolutionaries were facing during the early days of the fighting, especially in the months before nato came in with air support, check out misratas war museum. what did this f...

Someone chipped off all their dicks. not that i was looking. anywhere else in the world, this place would be overrun with tourists. but, look. no one. youre free to wander as you wish. quite a backdrop, you know? if youre seeing a little dinner theater production of, uh, "our town" couple of thousand years ago. not bad. the only other visitors today are a troop of libyan boy scouts. bizarrely enough, gaddafi himself was once a scout. and this was one of the only organizations allowed to remain i...

Theres a lot of homemade things here. this is homemade, too. it fires a big rocket. this is grenade, homemade, this one. this was from a helicopter. >> anthony: yes. >> hamid: we got it and we put it in the cars. >> anthony: you took it off a helicopter. >> hamid: yeah. >> anthony: and you put it on a car. >> anthony: uh-huh. and do you know what this is for? you know molotov? and we fire -- >> anthony: so its basically a crossbow that fires molotov cocktails. >> hamid: yeah, molotov and, uh, tn...

>> man: its all quite quiet and, and cool at the moment. >> anthony: daylight reveals the extent of the fighting that took place here, not so long ago. ♪ >> hamid: this here used to be a vegetable market. clothes. one of gaddafis soldiers clothes. >> anthony: he left them here and ran. >> hamid: yeah. was that, uh, what they did in tripoli? >> anthony: yeah. >> hamid: we went into the city, they just removed their clothes and ran away in the streets, so nobody would know who, who are they. >> ...

About to force gaddafis complete departure. >> anthony: and they recorded the whole thing on their cell phones. [chanting "libya"] ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, ♪ >> anthony: its amazing arriving here after all you see on tv these ...