benghazi a few months ago, i mean, what does this mean to the country? i think there is a dark, mysterious hand that doesn t like this country to prosper. they see system and organization as a big enemy to them. these concerns are slowly getting diminished. it is a matter of time before we can get rid of them. how hard do you think that s going to be? not at all. we got rid of gadhafi. nothing else is hard. i like your attitude. the fluid situation in libya has been intensifying since our arrival, and we ve had to change our behavior, constantly moving. should i be wearing one of these cool journalist safari jackets at this point? so, it seemed a good time, or maybe not saddle up. to go to misrata. okay, guys, we can go. roger that. since the revolution, misrata has been the most secure city in libya, but over the last two
weeks, in a hail of bullets and hand-thrown grenade attacks, an imam, security forces and a police officer have all been killed. i want you to move forward. you can come past me. all along the narrow, congested highway, there are checkpoints manned mostly by local militias, and i want to stress, most of them are friendly enough. we are, however, in a hurry to get to misrata before dark. traveling at night around here is not advised. drop the camera. yep, yep. stop the camera. stop the camera. pulling into town after dark,
again, barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it s a start. people in misrata are good. yeah. laid back. in american, laid back. a stew made of kidneys, liver and heart served family-style. feel free to eat with hands. right hand only, please. good food. and a really traditional thing left over from the italians, basically, pasta with ra ragu. what s this dish called? the sound bok, bok, bok, means it s ready. it s good. so, the italians left you one nice thing. a few nice buildings and pasta. and pasta, yeah. so the story of misrata, the story of libya, seems to be
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this is hanid, one of the guys we called the misrata boys, basically militia members from the area who looked out for us here and in tripoli when things started getting hinky in neighboring algeria and benghazi. this is a serious tank. his job these days is hunting down former gadhafi supporters. so, the gadhafi forces rolled in. they d use these tanks to fire around the city. around. this was the operation room here. now, if you had any doubt about the terrible odds these young revolutionaries were facing during the early days of the fighting, especially in the months before nato came in with air support, check out misrata s