now we're hearing reports that they're going house to house, looking for anybody who might be a male of a certain age who might have taken part in this. did they know what it will entail if gadhafi retook the town? >> reporter: oh, yes, they knew. because it has already happened before now. every time there was an attack, they kept on -- the army, the gadhafi army kept on making attacks farther into the town center. they would attack and attack, then withdraw. on one occasion we went to the hospital and saw the military vehicles going back in. they were going back in to pick up not only the dead soldiers, to kill the injured soldiers so they couldn't pass on any other information, but to do the clean up there and then. i went back several hours and the dozens of gadhafi soldiers had all disappeared. the injured soldier who had been