to an end. libyan rebels made fast and furious advances over the weekend. they claim they now control a great majority of tripoli. it could be a mortal blow to leader moammar gadhafi s 42-year rule. some of his forces are still putting up a fight. there have been reports of tank fire near gadhafi s home. there was no sign of gadhafi yet himself. the rebels are saying they ve got three of their sons and opposition leaders already are making plan to govern. [ crowd noise ] as you might expect, there are celebrations around the world. libyans living in manchester, england, took to the streets to celebrate the leader s push into tripoli. we ve been suppressed for 42 years. now we re testing the freedom, the freedom of speech, the freedom of movement, the freedom of everything that mean libyan people are free, no longer suppressed, and gadhafi, the dictator, is out, his sons are being captured, and we are we can t describe the joy we re feeling right now. [ crowd noise ] a
resort community of military community of pakistan. but that gives us great leverage behind closed doors. because we ve got to tell these guys, now is the time. we have to investigate what happened. what would you ask them for? we need a joint investigation here, how was this compound built, who owned the land, who are the contractors. there s a whole network that would supply this place. we need to know that and work together on it. say you find out the answers to all of those questions. we find out the contracts on, who sold him the cement, whatever it is. and what you find out, people knew about it. people helped him. so what? we ve got to work with the pakistanis to try to root outlet problems within their own not only security structures but intelligence structures and government structures. we can t walk away, and we also there s nothing there s no easy answer here, obviously. but i think i agree with christine. if we walk away, we only strengthen in aid you mean?
fighting continues. joining us to talk about this this morning in washington, brett mcgurk from the council on foreign relations, also a former senior advisor to the national security council. great to have you with us this morning. we also have with us our own cnn pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara, great to have you as well. so we re talking about the challenges and of course, yesterday really when general petreaus was testifying there was a lot of emphasis on this july 2011 deadline for troop withdrawal. brett, petraeus says it has to be based on conditions on the ground but do we have a clear idea what the goals are, what conditions would be acceptable for beginning to withdraw? well, the conditions are basically that you have a local security structure that can allow us to pull back, slowly, deliberately, responsibly. those local security structures can hold the line so you don t have a massive taliban-type sanctuary. we are talking a lot of time here, july is still
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