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>> anthony: morning in misrata. >> man: hows the vibe? >> 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 s...

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.

Fighting. thats we why give it all of blood from my country. because i wanted feeling that. the taste of freedom. >> anthony: the taste of freedom. >> johar: is nice taste. >> man: food place, good? >> anthony: good food. outside tripolis center, theres this, one-time axis of all power and untold evil. a huge complex of sinister offices, barracks, residences, on top of a rabbit warren of secret tunnels and underground facilities. the bab al-azizia -- gaddafis

Get to misrata before dark. traveling at night around here is not advised. >> 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 earl...

>> anthony: did anyone think it was possible that in their lifetime they were going to see 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 ca...

Revolution on facebook and twitter. they fought in tripoli, benghazi, misrata, and everywhere in between. who won this war? the young people? or everybody? >> omar: everybody. but the young people, they started it. >> anthony: what was your day like as a revolutionary? >> omar: you keep one thought in your mind. you do this for the next generation. for a better country. for a better life. >> anthony: you have a future now. before, people -- >> omar: yeah. >> anthony: you know what people say. >>...

[singing] ♪ ♪ >> anthony: there arent a lot of conflicts in the world where theres a clear bad guy. clearly there was a bad guy here. >> michel: yeah. exactly. i mean, the one thing about gaddafi is he believed he was the most important human being almost that had ever existed. i mean, he changed the names of the months. he changed the dates of the islamic calendar. such, uh, megalomania. and, as you well know, anyone outside -- you mention the word

Around with this thing. >> hamid: why? we trust our people. 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 ...

>> 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. how you should be feeling? if -- uh, exactly. i feeling good. because i wanted killed him. uh, i -- i dont wanted -- i dont want see anyone die more. he has killed for nothing. the first time, i think, uh, that killing people is bad. but hes, hes leave me do that. because if i dont kill him, he is kill me. >> anthony: right. its nice to see fr...

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