Libyan Fighting News Today

Gathering i assume involves everything from friends, family, jobs, internet connections, member of any groups. take us through all that. >> absolutely. now i think the intelligence services in the uk and in europe and even in the united states are digging into what they have about salman abedi, about his connections, the fact that hes libyan. is there a connection in libya and with whom? is there connection with isis or is it section with islamist groups like the libyan fighting groups who opera...

My colleagues who i worked with in the foreign service are really the ones who are grieving. chris was a person who had served in so many different posts throughout the middle east. and they are the ones who really where the country should turn their attention and respect and honor as well because of their sacrifices. let me just add, the people who committed this atrocity in libya are part of the extremist under current that resides in libya. the government is trying to gain control of the coun...

Sufficiently degraded so that arming the rebels is no longer necessary. will the rebels be able to do this themselves? can they go from benghazi and reach tripoli? if what we saw today is any evidence, thats -- were not anywhere near that, chris. >> we are already hearing from washington the debate thats starting over whether or not to arm the rebels and one of the question that is being raised, members of congress wantlso wan you touched on this a little bit about these reports that the anti-ga...

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So the fighting does continue. it seems to be mostly isolated in tripoli around gadhafis compound. it seems that gadhafis compound is still quite well fortified and being attacked by rebels who are no match for the the tanks inside. >> richard, we have the reports of gadhafis sons being in custody. do you know of what the plans are for them? >> reporter: the plans are unclear. there were some negotiations -- initial negotiations earlier today to try and hand over the sons, two sons the most impo...

A break in fighting to negotiate. >> each side is terrified of the orside. so lets suspend all military operations, all violence right now. >> nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in tripoli right now. hes on the phone with us. where do we stand in terms of the rebels taking control of every part of government there? >> reporter: we just returned a few hundred yards away from gadhafis compound. there is the still an active battle going on in that area. gadhafis loyalists, its un...

State controlling the city. if that evaporates theres a danger of looting, a doirch of instability. the history tells us that leaderless revolutions are not good for democrats. theres a huge power vacuum that is going to be the subject of intense efforts to try to cease control by many of the tribal leaders that have largely waited by the sidelines here. >> in fact, thats one of the concerns that we talked about months ago when the fighting first began in libya is who are the rebels? who do they...