plane headed into this thing. they are calling it a tropical disturbance for now just to see if it s serious enough to name it a tropical storm possibly in the next couple of hours. keep in mind we re also learning major oil companies are not taking any chances with this disturbance. evacuations have begun just in case and the mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu, he ll be holding a news conference as they are all watching this disturbance as well heading precariously closely to their government line. we ll keep an eye on all of it and let s move on to some other news. moammar gadhafi, a la saddam hussein, is threatening to plunge his country into a drawn out civil war, but did you know it is 42 years to the day since a much younger gadhafi seized control of libya in a military coup. now presumably on the run but apparently still alive, gadhafi is extorting supporters exhorting excuse me, exhorting supporters to fight to the death. here s his message. this was aired today
couldn t agree more with you and pat, it s just it doesn t work. it doesn t work. it s just dragging on. then we had this disastrous attack in nigeria. tragic. many people killed. it s spreading and diverted to new places. this is not a working approach. yeah. there s no con nettic solution to this. took out the number two in al qaeda. pointing that out. it s big news. it is big news. the question is this, that s great news. it s great that we got saddam hussein out. it would be great to get the taliban out. it s great if we are going to get gadhafi out. the question is, at what cost? at what cost? and what difference? what difference? a day or two after this, you have the u.n.
this is a crew speeding away from the rixos hotel in tripoli where gadhafi loyalists, the gunmen who had been holding these men and women captive for five-plus days. now and only now can they tell their story. we will hear it coming up. something here, the cnn crew, among dozens of international journalists, as i mentioned at the rixos hotel, between 30 and 35 journalists were held inside for five-plus days trying to negotiate the release according to our matthew chance, every hour, every minute of every day. the end came today when a cnn producer persuaded the local commander that the fight outside was over, that the gadhafi forces had lost. listen to this. well, i actually we ve spent time with him over the past few days sitting and talking to him about his kids, his family and so he started to come i really miss my family and i really want to go out and see my family who are really worried about me now, same thing for the 30-plus journalists sitting in the hotel. he
yes, it was still illegal even if we had won. as your previous segment pointed out, winning in this sort of thing, yeah, even if we get rid of fwa daffgadhafi, there s sti occupation. it was an illegal war when it started. it s an illegal war now that we drove gadhafi out. if we hadn t had success, obama would have gotten political blowback. which shows how little respect we have for the law. tim carney says the ends don t justify the means. that s a breakthrough principal on the dylan ratigan show. this is an easy one. if we won, great, we could have gone in, asked for authorization and got it done. we didn t do that. this was an easy win for everybody. we chose to not to the right thing. tony, thanks for sharing your insight on all of this. in other big news today, something that really drives me crazy and it s getting lost in a lot of libya development, which is that the thanks to bloomberg news which put in a freedom of
the middle of the square and people stomping on it. mike, they came in town after town after town and marched right into the sefrnt of town in tripoli, are you surprised how it was a protracted civil war seems to be coming to a close? i think everyone is surprise bid the speed it reached tripoli and also the response it had gotten from the pro gadhafi forces or lack of response. but ever since the nato bombings began, and of course we have played a very important, very key role, even though it s been some what off the radar screen to what nato has been doing, there s been no doubt that yes, we can eventually drive gadhafi out. you know, the question now becomes, because there is really very little infrastructure there, some of your guests pointed out, and because of the lack of luggage in sense of what