terror group could get its hand on some of qaddafi s most dangerous weapons. catherine herridge live in washington with more. reporter: he s becoming a more familiar face with the media identifying himself as the leader of the rebels. this footage we have comes from a recent interview, and according to memory he is linked to the libyan islamic fighting group that was founded in 1995 to set up an islamic site or emirate. and the lsg has been designated a terrorist organization. he has lived and traveled to more than 22 one trifs. he was arrested in malaysia in 2004 and later imprisoned in libya and he was recently released last year as part of a rehabilitation program. the transitional national
and nice beaches. if you get a drink with an umbrella in it it makes everything better. the pentagon has plans for hurricane irene. among them making 100,000 national guard troops available up and down the eastern seaboard. the u.s. navy issuing a code alpha and ordering its ships to leave the norfolk naval station. 7 ships set out to sea. dozens more are staying at secured piers. a lert coming in out of libya. and ferocious battle is underway in the streets of tripoli. rebels surrounding a neighborhood where supporters of colonel qaddafi are taking cover among civilians. there is growing fear that the
dominicty anial hi di-natale has just crossed the border, and he joins us live. what are you seeing, dominic? reporter: at the moment the border s very calm even though there is a constant flow of refugees and people just trying to escape the violence. a lot of people here at the border are very nervous for the fact they re not convinced the rebels can really pin gadhafi down at this time, nor, indeed, do they have the capacity to fully remove the resistant loyalists effectively. so a lot of people trying to get away from that, they re coming in and bringing their families, some are going straight back and bringing more people back, as many as they can. i d say there s a few thousand crossing at the moment. this is by no means a refugee crisis, but it is just increasing in numbers, the volumes of people coming across, and can it s been happening for the past couple of years. with regards to the latest audio message coming out of gadhafi, he s called on libyan women and children to
french reporters, suggesting that about 10:00 a.m. on wednesday, the rebels made it to a safe house, where they believe muammar qaddafi had spent the night and they found evidence that he had recently been there and narrowly had managed to narrow he had narrowly escaped and the pentagon cannot confirm those reports, either. but, again, they are still working under the assumption that muammar qaddafi is in the capital of tripoli. the u.k. s foreign minister, foreign secretary, just said that the brits are providing intelligence and surveillance, nato is still flying surveillance war planes over the captains of tripoli and they say this is far from over. and, again, that intelligence is helping the rebels as they move and continue to look for muammar qaddafi. martha: obviously that would be a huge development if they are indeed accurate about that.
trying to get qaddafi. i certainly hope we have more accuracy in tracking down the wmd sites and controlling those assets but to me it s an argument for deeper, prompter engagement with these folks on the ground who are going to be the guiding the future to get a better handle on where this stuff is and gregg: i understand the council has a proposed constitution. i think you ve looked into that. is it more secular than under qaddafi s rule? it is slightly more secular than under qaddafi s rule, and of course, it contains language that wouldn t be what i or any other reasonable american would want in a constitution, but it is closely aapproximating what in other constitutions across this region, including both consulates in iraq, it walls language that tries to put in place that no law that contraconveniences islam shall be established, and there are other references that could be troubling, but