the cig significance of all thee events, mike baker, president of diligence llc. good morning to you. thank you. bill: what does it mean? well, i mean, it s, obviously, extremely good news once it s confirmed. but what it means, also, is that we have to be very careful because we re now moving into probably the most important part. we always knew that gadhafi was finished, it was just a matter of what was the ending scenario. but now we have to hope that the national transitional council and sort of the de facto prime minister will be strong enough, charismatic enough, powerful enough and efficient enough to move immediately into the next phase of this which is to create stability, prevent revenge or retribution attacks against the former gadhafi supporters and move forward with some real changes to the government. so i think, you know, it s a time for celebration in a sense. i mean, you know, in the way that gadhafi has been treating
be moammar gadhafi after he was shot in the head and legs and killed according to sources on the ground. we re still waiting for official confirmation from the white house and pentagon, so let s go to jennifer given who is live at the pentagon. the video has a real news purpose here because it is all we have at this point in terms of determining what happened to him, how he was killed and how this was carried out. reporter: well, what s really interesting, martha, is we have been checking back every few minutes with defense officials, the operations center here at the pentagon as well as intelligence officials, and no one as of yet can confirm that he s dead. but i was sitting in one official s office just moments ago, and as we watched the video, it was slowed down, and we were looking very carefully, and it did look like you could see a bullet wound behind the ear of gadhafi or what is purported to be gadhafi. the assumption is that he is dead, and now the real question is, was he
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said to be dead libyan leader moammar qaddafi. as you can see, it s a bit distant in terms of his face and closeup of this picture, it looks like a fairly chaotic scene. this came in from afp this, photo, and it is being circulated widely at this hour. you remember the whole discussion going back to bin laden and whether or not we would see pictures of his dead body. these are the pictures that are now being attributed to that to his death. we re going to wait to see if we get confirmation from the u.s. government on his death and the whole details of this story, tbhaw is the picture you re going to see a lot of throughout the course of today. it will be very closely anlied. bill: let s bring in former ambassador to the u.n., john bolton, also a fox news contributor. your reaction to the news of the hour. i think it s entirely appropriate that qaddafi was killed this way, but as symbolically important as it is, many of the big issues facing libya remain. for example, even though he
bill: back to our breaking news, a spokesperson for the transitional government in libya telling fox news that moammar qaddafi is dead, also insisting that he took two bullets to the legs, one bullet to the head, none of this has been independently confirmed, worry working on that through source necessary tripoli andle the town of sirte where we re told this happened. screen left is the video we re getting in from the streets of tripoli, where the rebel commanders and some of the rebel fighters have now taken to the street in celebration. sometimes there is gunfire there, sometimes shouting in the background. we will be back in touch with david piper in a moment. wendell goler is traveling with the secretary of state, hillary clinton, we will talk to wendell a bit later this morning, waiting for the moment from a statement from the white house or the department of state, or more from the pentagon, pending