he may be losing his mind. wild accusations about drugs and coffee and mad man to mad man why qaddafi is now blaming osama bin laden. they were just children when terrorists carried out the attacks of 9/11. i remember being in school and my mom came in crying. shepard: now a decade later these students are taking a lesson from the heros they saw that day. kids are studying to be firefighters and emts. hours ago they were visits ground zero and our cameras were there. tonight, fox reports on the rise of freedom. the space shuttle discovery taking final flight. we have main engine start. the mission has one extra passenger. 2, 1. shepard: tonight, launch of the robo naut. final lift-off of
discovery. shepard: as moammar qaddafi s killers murder people in the street, the dictator is blaming his nation s troubles on illegal drugs and allege died. qaddafi made a rambling phone call to state television. he said the people calling for change, opposition forces are just drugged up teenagers, in his words, they give them pills at night. they put ha louisiana he said osama bin laden and al divide are the ones manipulating everybody. the dictator also compared himself to britain s queen elizabeth saying nobody objects to how she runs things. and earlier, qaddafi s son spoke to the nation. he made about as much sense as dad did. tripoli is quiet today and yesterday. see the shops and schools are open. people are working as normal. the banks are open. life is as normal. shepard: life is not as normal. except for the people blind cuffed and handcuffed in the
that claimed 10 lives took place in a mosque. the demonstrators were inside the mosque. they were hold up there. they were refusing to leave. a government envoy told them that either they would leave or there was going to be a massacre and true to his word the military fired antiaircraft weapon at the mosque, at least 10 people dead. by some counts as many as 23 were killed. more than 150 injured. also today, we heard, once again, from moammar qaddafi. he took to the airway state television. he gave a ram bring speech over the telephone. he blamed the problems of the country on osama bin laden. and he also said the demonstrators had been using hallucinogenic drugs, drinking it in their milk. that s the latest from libya. back to you. shepard: clearly we got the satellite shot back up and we will continue to do so or try to. a new message from the united states to mexico s drug gangs. that message is this is personal. enormous crackdown is underway now across the country and south of
guiding principle as we proceeded the last week. there are reports qaddafi has taken control of parts of tripoli. do you believe qaddafi is still in control of the capital? i don t want to be in a position of giving a play-by-play commentary on events happening quite a bit away that we are all watching on television. what i can say is it s clear that colonel qaddafi has lost the confidence of his people. he is overseeing the brutal treatment of his people. the fatal violence against his own people and his legitimacy has been reduced to zero in the eyes of his people.
so that s what i ll say. does the president agree with french president sarkozy that qaddafi must leave? we always said that is a matter for the people of libya to decide. but i would repeat way just said. and because it is a matter for the people of libya to decide i think it s clear the people of libya have expressed that his continued use of deadly violence this clear violations of human rights are totally unacceptable. anywhere in the world. and the status quo is simply neither tenable nor acceptable. the libyan people deserve a government that protects the safety of its citizens.