Gadhafi Circle News Today

Form of the defection yesterday of mussa cues athe foreign minister and former head of external intelligence, and there are many stories now of other senior libyans who are allegedly on the point of defecting -- one it seems has defected, one in cairo. that is significant and does indicate cracks in the -- in the gadhafi circle. >> im interested in your take on the military dynamic right now. we seem to be involved in a bit of a seesaw battle, but something that appears to be aproechg a stalemat...

Of gadhafis son. i would say its relating to islam in some way rather than relating to colonel gadhafi himself. thats just a guess. >> even if his visit relates to the son, saif, does that indicate there are beginning to be cracks in support that gadhafi, the father, has within both his family and the concentric circles that emanate out from him such that his base of support within tripoli would begin to disintegrate? >> no, i wouldnt see this as evidence of that. we have evidence of that in the...

For gadhafi. >> thats the chairman of the house committee, mike rogers, calling the defection of musa musa kusa "huge." the question is whether this start a crack that will reverb rate around gadhafis inner circle? will we see other defections come right afterwards? >> its hard to know because gadhafi is so incredibly opaque. there are two sides of the gadhafi circle. there are the non-family members, and there are the family members, like gadhafi himself, like kamese, like other members of the ...

Supporters that there will be chaos when the regime final lly falls and it looks inevitable that theyre starting to come apart with senior defections and no longer effectively resisting on the outskirts of tripoli. >> what do you think this means? do you think this means that gadhafi forces are weaker or the rebels are stronger? >> theres a momentum of the psychology of these kinds of things. i think it was very important that we start to see people in the inner ring of the gadhafi circle now on...