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I heard in libya, they say to us, many people who attacked us were drinking, some were on drugs. >> john, moammar gadhafis son speaking out, at least it ran today, we dont know when it shot. hes on television today and his dad. >> interesting contrast, the father being hailed and applauded by all those supporters while his son was giving the speech. >> the u.s. state department said today it is gravely concerned about the disturbing reports and images coming out of libya. >> the question has to ...

As drug addicts, as children, as extremists so it really is back to the demonstrators to see how they will react to this and as weve been reporting and its very difficult to report with any degree of clarity or confirmation of whats happening in libya, this unrest has now spread to tripoli. people we spoke to on the phone and managed to reach telling us that theyre dismissing what saif gadhafi had to say as lie, that the people of libya are united. they are unified, they will not go into civil w...

And saw the others are doing it and told themself, we can do it. >> do you think gadhafi will go? >> i have no doubt about that. >> you heard it. >> thank you. alittle gebril, we appreciate it again. coming up, coming up on 6:00 a.m. in libya, the dawn of a new day. well, what might happen over these next few hours is the question. >> back live to the region for our special report on unrest in libya. stay with us, back on the other side.

Tense. you also have moammar gadhafi himself, who cultivated this image of being kind of outlier and essentially, he doesnt care what anybody in the outside world thinks about him. a u.s. official we spoke with this evening said gadhafi has been in power 42 years and still in power, at least that is what they believe and he is not losing his grip on power at all. so the united states at this point, about all it can do is to make very strong urgings to the government of libya, to stop violence. t...

Theres been literally a massacre in tripoli as we speak, right now, this night, tonight. >> theres a massacre. >> massacre on the seas of tripoli. they say that the mercenaries have been unleashed to the streets of tripoli. >> this is the second time we heard of mercenaries, soldiers from outside of libya? >> whos telling you this? >> my family and many other reports coming to us, coming to everybody. >> my question is how widespread is this? across the entire country or consecrated in certain c...

Today on al jazeera practically reading a revolt lecture, asking the libyans to revolt. that makes it very -- >> your information is very interesting. unfortunately, were out of time. it will have to be the last word. thank you for joining us. >> appreciate it. >> when we come back, well talk to a libyan american here in atlanta who will react to the speech given by moammar gadhafis son. back in a moment. and how to fold em. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any...

Lockerbie scotland. thank you for joining us. when was the last time libya dealt with anything like this? an uprising of this magnitude? >> there hasnt been any uprisings of this magnitudes, some here and there, most notably when the libya islamic front fighters, lifg, libyan islamic front group were revolting against the government, in the same areas we are witnessing today, same uprising uprisings, most in the eastern parts of the country, benghazi, green mountain area they call it. the easter...

Who have been in the front line with the men. thats whats happened exactly to libya. >> sayyid idris, we appreciate you joining us on cnn. thank you. >> thank you. >> you probably know libya, an oil rich country, one of the richest in africa but also has one of the highest per capita incomes of an african country. >> interesting. back with more of our special coverage right after a break. at purina one, we want your dog to be as healthy as possible. so we set out to discover the science in some ...

This is cnn special coverage of "unrest in libya." and the question is, what do you know about libya? the country is about the size of alaska and has a population of about 6.5 million people. >> yeah, its pretty small actually. more than 90% is desert or semi desert. oil exports make up 80% of the governments revenue and the median age of libyan, young country, 24 years old. libya shares borders with algeria, chad, egypt, niger, sudan and tunisia. i want to continue on with our special report. l...

>> translator: moammar gadhafi, our leader, is leading the battle in tripoli, and were with him. the army is with him. there are tens of thousands who are coming flooding to tripoli. we will never give up libya. we will fight to the last inch, to the last shot. we will never leave our country. >> were in special coverage tonight of the uprising in libya. >> yeah, right now were joined by ali gebril who has been living in this country for 0 years now. ali, i just want to ask, first of all, you ha...