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Qaeda of giving supporters drugs and, he says queen elizabeth has been around 57 years, why cant i stick around 57 years and clearly his people dont feel that way and are willing to give up their own lives to see him kicked out after 41 years of ruling libya with an iron fist and now it is fair to say lybia is on the verge or in all-out civil war and, ten people died today, one battle at a mosque and weve seen a number of other battles throughout the country, that is turning to an east versus we...

Hes falling and hes falling fast. everybody is waiting for him to fall. hes trying to discourage people. hes trying to do his best to make everybody give up. hes even trying to use the weakest point of the west, which is al qaeda and giving out that al qaeda will be running this country. this is nonsense. that will never happen. libya is a very moderated, very peaceful, very desperate country and nation who is just waiting for a chance to be out, to have a democracy, to have an actual law, to ha...

His statements to this point have been interesting to say the least. meanwhile its allout chaos at the airport. americans and other foreigners desperate to get out and escape that violence. david lee miller live on the egyptian-libyan border. >> reporter: in the eastern portion of libya, this is a city of 300,000 on the mediterranean. joining me right now is matug. hes one of the leaders of the opposition leaders. this is a city the opposition captured last friday in a battle with police. descri...

Fear, of the humiliation, you just lose respect for yourself. this time, for the first time im proud to be a libyan. people are proud to be a libyan. he tried to put people against each other by tribes, but today in benghazi, if you ask them what is your name? they will tell you my name is abdullah the libyan, mohammed the libyan. they dont mention their tribes. they want to say -- i dont want to use a bad word, but this animal, we dont fear you anymore. we are united. me showing my face is to s...

Whoever cooperates with foreign countries in order to instigate war against libya, the punishment will be execution. whoever tampers with the country is also punished by execution. whoever facilitates the entering of enemies into the country of libya, whoever damages the ports, the airports, has to be executed. >> thats gadhafi reading from his beloved green book, a book he wrote calling for the execution of everyone who opposes him right now. his regime is piece by piece falling apart. his inte...

>> thank you. >> lets bring back in jill dougherty and fareed zakaria. amazing to hear that man saying, you know, how freedom feels like after 42 years. can gadhafi hold on? >> i think he probably can. its a pretty brutal regime. we tend to think of gadhafi as this comical mad cap, but hes run one of the most repressive countries in the world. libya was tied with north korea for the most closed repressive society in the world. he has the guns and this is the big difference here. this is an oil c...

Know, turning over to the opposition, to the protesters side. i mean, is that sort of a soldier by soldier decision? has there been mass defections? do we know at this point? >> reporter: it appears there have been large or even mass defections of the military. in fact, we spent the evening with one military officer who defected a few days ago, and he was meeting with prisoners, soldiers who had been captured. and trying to convince them that they should come over to the side of what he called t...

Concern. we have joined with the international community in strongly condemning the violence in libya. and we believe that the government of libya bears responsibility for what is occurring and must take actions to end the violence. now, as always, the safety and well being of americans has to be our highest priority. and we are in touch with many libyan officials directly and indirectly and with other governments in the region to try to influence what is going on inside libya. >> now, the back ...

And i think we can -- we can -- this is, you know, hi -- there civil servants there, theres no reason to think itll slip into anarchy like somalia. the international community has got to figure out a way to put convincing pressure on gadhafi to stop this mass murder. >> who has influence over gadhafi at all? what little influence there might be. but outside of libya, who has the most influence, would you say? >> i dont think theres any individual country. this is a situation where the russians o...

Says he can say he is free. his name is mufta and when we spoke to him on friday, government shootings were under way. he was risking his life just to call us. now he insists not just on using his first game but on showing his face. thats because moammar gadhafi no longer controls benghazi. he may be in position to take vengeance through mercenaries or through air power. for now, benghazi has taken on the appearance of a liberated city. i spoke with mufta earlier today. mufta, what has it been l...