well, the chinese were one of the largest investors in libya s oil fields prior to qaddafi s fall. now it turns out they were providing the qaddafi regime with arms as recently as july according to libyan opposition leaders who say they found a receipt in government offices they ve been sifting through, a receipt for $200 million in weapons for missiles, rocket launcher, and guns, they were supposed to be shipped through algeria. a chinese foreign ministry spokesman at first denied providing weapons to the qaddafi regime, quote, chinese companies have not provided military products to libya in any direct or indirect form. then the chinese spokesman just released a statement saying they re looking into these allegations and that some chinese companies did meet with qaddafi representatives in july. they re saying they re taking that allegation very zeroo seriously. rebel leaders are saying they may bring this up at the united nations. you ll remember that china abstained from voting in
have run out of places to hide. the hunt for today of continues. kelly: dominique d-natali reporting live from tripoli. jaime: clearly moammar qaddafi could be found at any moment. there is a new government record that says jihaddists are among the libyan rebels and they revealed plans on the internet to take over libya and create an islamist state. how big is that threat? general bob scales joins me now. this is a new one. yes it is. let s be careful here about jumping to conclusions too quickly. look, the libyans have a long history of supporting radical groups. remember a disproportionate number of libyans were suicide bombers, and libyans have been in the leadership of al-qaida for many years. but this is a different situation. right now the political future
to be quite honest. he is talking to abdul kalil, he wants them to give up the guns. , he s telling the loyalists to dig in and intimidate the local residents and not allow the rebels to get any closer. they are 20 miles outside the city but surround the city and the shear numbers would way more than the loyalists. everybody thought it would be a fight for sirte, but it appears that bani wald. if they go to war against each other it s cousin against cousin in an area like that, it will have ramifications for the future history of libya and people are very, very cautious, they don t want that to happen. it s one of moammar qaddafi s strongholds. if that one falls today of will
be questioned by congressman king and others for about 20 minutes, they will run sequentially. this is not a debate but south carolina is a very, very important state. no republican president has ever become president without winning the south carolina primary. it s been in existence for 35, 40 years, it is very, very important, symbolic, as well as. perry s absence means this will wrap up a little bit earlier, voters will not get to see the juxtaposition of rick perry and mitt romney speaking back to back at this forum today. a lot of south carolinians will be disappointed but there s a bigger debate in south carolina, the furs time a full field such as it exists now stand together on the stage, including rick perry. interesting goings on. i see you re in columbia, thank you very much. one big question in post- qaddafi lib kwrarbgs who will control the oil and
they ve given him an extra week to allow him to give up. that would lead one to believe that they are thinking about laying down their weapons in a huge siege on that part of the country. casualties could be as high as 20,000, that would be a massive number. final word greg on those african migrants you were talking about. we ve seen rebels rounding up migrants in the city here. they are being accused in some cases of fighting for moammar qaddafi. the ones we spoke with said they weren t. they said they are being mistaken for moammar qaddafi loyalists. they could be harmed. it could turn into a humanitarian crisis. martha: new developments in a