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They hunger for places like this. kentaki fried chick -- uncle kentaki fried chicken. >> johar: uncle kentaki. >> anthony: okay. the colonel, and his buddies the king and the clown, have not quite made it here, given the uncertainty of the situation. so in the meantime, places like this have been popping up. uncle kentucky, awesome. do you know where kentucky is? >> johar: the kentucky is from usa. >> anthony: a part, yeah. >> johar: yeah. >> anthony: these places new? >> johar: yeah. its new. b...

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 clots and ran away in the streets, so nobody would know who, who are they. >> anthonythis is hamid, one of the guys we called the misrata boys, basically militia members from the area who looked out for us here and in tripoli when things started to get hinky in neighbo...

Someone chipped off all their dicks. not that i was looking. anywhere else in the world, this place would be overrun with toists. 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" a 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 in...

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: the menu is not printed...

>> 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, tnt sometimes. >> anthony: youre shooting this at people who have, uh, mortars. >> hamid: and tanks. >> anthony: uh, uh, tanks. >> hamid: tanks, yeah. >> anthony: youre shooting this at tanks? >> hamid: yeah. becaus...

Enormous compound. >> anthony: most everything belonging to or associated with gaddafi was destroyed. nato continually bombed strategic locations within the compound. and on august 23rd, 2011 it fell to the rebels, gaddafi and his family having fled. this is whats left of gaddafis palace.

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 assassinated. and its not clear whos responsible. misrata is on full lockdown. >> man: another checkp...

Kentaki fried chick -- uncle kentaki fried chicken. >> johar: uncle kentaki. >> anthony: okay. the colonel, and his buddies the king and the clown, have not quite made it here, given the uncertainty of the situation. so in the meantime, places like this have been popping up. uncle kentaki, awesome. do you know where kentucky is? >> johar: the kentucky is from usa. >> anthony: a part, yeah. >> johar: yeah. >> anthony: these places new? >> johar: yeah. its new. before the gaddafi -- >> anthony: im...

"libya," everyone would just say, "gaddafi." >> anthony: yeah. >> michel: gaddafi stole the identity of libya. >> anthony: michel cousins is the co-founder of the english-language paper the libya herald, and has known several different libyas in his lifetime. >> michel: for so long, the news has been the personality. gaddafi turned up to open a shopping center. gaddafi turned up to open an envelope. those of us who knew libya, who knew there was another libya, uh, wonderful people, we would talk...

>> anthony: that is a seriously -- up tank. >> hamid: yeah. >> anthony: his job these days 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 mont...