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Once again tonight, ordinary libyans are trying to get the message out, even at great risk to their lives. we are not giving this womans name, but we would be honored to meet her when this is over. we spoke a short time ago. how dangerous are the streets right now? >> now tripoli is a ghost town. i will assure you that, its a ghost town. theres nobody walking in the street, nobody is trying to get out, even to look through the window. its a little scary. it is scary. >> youre afraid right now? >...

Blackmail europe. hes the one that made the famous statement that unless hes indulged, he would turn europe black, he would unleash on europe floods of african immigrants. hes played the game to perfection. >> theres an important distinction with mubarak and saddam hussein. libya and gadhafi has killed americans and attacked americans and attacked british soil. that makes a big distinction. >> its got to outrage you to hear these libyan diplomats now, the libyan ambassador to the u.s., represent...

About the black people and the european, eastern european people recruited to contribute in this massacre. its nonsense. i thought that hes going to give a threat or a warning for this to stop. i expected more to be honest. i expected to read between the lines from his speech. i did not see that. i was very disappointed. not me alone. everybody was disappointed. we want america to support us. >> if you are hiding in your home and the streets are not safe to go out on, how are you able to hold on...

That fear has been defeated, there is no turning back. >> i was struck by the same thing. i was struck in tahrir square the number of people i would be interviewing. i would say, whats your name? they would say its mohammed with two ms. get my name down. i want to be in the newspaper. theres two very powerful i think voices or themes you heard coming out of these revolutions. one, is we are not afraid of anymore. we have so little to lose. the regime has stripped us of that. the other you hear, ...

There were several large bases in the area, and they do seem to have taken control of all of them. but its not clear. we havent seen any tanks in the street. we havent seen any aircraft that they have. so its not clear really how much they can really -- they can get their hands on. >> lets hope it doesnt come to that. ben wedeman, thank you for the reports. coming up, cant talk about libya and the entire region without talking about oil. tom friedman talks about an addiction to oil. keep it co...

Unforgiving. go back and look at uwanda. president clinton said this was a great moral failure. go back to srebrenica in 1995 when 7,000 people were murdered by the serbian killer squads and then we concluded that this too was unforgivable. it is this moment now, in arab history. this is the springtime of the arab people. will this battle turn in favor of this man and his killer squads and mercenaries. >> i was with the patriotic front and the difference between that and now is there are cell ph...

I say this with a heavy heart, because i was a supporter of president bush. but i think that was in error. then came further years of indulging this terrible man, moammar gadhafi. and we now see the harvest of the bargain weve made. >> its interesting, fouad, because with mubarak, the bush administration had this sort of name and shame policy where condoleezza rice made a public declaration in cairo critical of the regime, and yet there you see her meeting with gadhafi in libya the first secreta...

So you crack these regimes and a lot of instability is going to flow out. its going to be a long time before they find their footing. >> its incredible when you look at all the money gadhafi has made from oil, and yet he spent very, very little on his people. theres only 6 million people or something in libya, and yet their education system is a joke. >> yeah. even egypt, you know, you have somewhere around 30% illiteracy in egypt, which we consider a modern country, the leader of the arab world...

Well talk with dr. fouad ajami and jill dougherty. first, the latest from inside libya. cnns ben wedeman, first western journalist inside libya and to make it to the libl rated city of benghazi. ben, what was it like when you arrived in benghazi today? >> reporter: it blew our minds, anderson. we arrived in the mid afternoon and we showed up in the center of town where there were thousands of people already demonstrated. when they saw us arrive, they just exploded with cheers and clapping, peopl...

Hes indulged, he would turn europe black, he would unleash on europe floods of african immigrants. so this man has played the game to perfection, and lets not forget that. >> theres an important distinction with mubarak and saddam hussein. libya and gadhafi has killed americans and attacked americans and attacked british soil. that makes a big distinction. and how he should be treated and addressed. >> its got to outrage you to hear these libyan diplomats now, the libyan ambassador to the u.s., ...