Tripoli Itself News Today

Outgunned opposition forces are trying to hold off army troops and hold on to territory. and assets and momentum which has been gained in the past three weeks. momentum, however, now seems to be on the armys side. but we havent heard of any big, new military victories in libya. i do want to point out two other cities, benghazi where the leadership is headquarters and zawiya in the far west, where theyre bombing government fighters with tanks and warplanes but still failing to retake the center c...

Capital. tripoli itself, where independent reporting is almost impossible, security forces are said to be the only people who dare to even venture out. gadhafi himself is lying low, but he called into state tv to blame the unrest on young people by drugs and brainwashed by osama bin laden. >> translator: the demand is not their demand. the demand is bin ladens demand. the masses have nothing to do. why do you try to drag bin laden into our country? why do you listen? youre taught and youre brain...

Good chance of reaching the capital, tripoli itself. the more immediate threat for gadhafis regime is the fighting that is going on in these two towns just on the outskirts of tripoli itself, and that is where weve seen some of the heaviest fighting over the last several days. >> richard, what about the reports that rebel forces have captured and detained eight british special forces soldiers? what do we know about that and the why behind it? >> reporter: the why appears to have been some confus...