while the west dithered. just weeks ago, anti-gadhafi dissidents controlled the entire eastern part of the country from the center to tobruk in the east and con controlled mizurata and the east. after outgunned resistance fighters, gadhafi forces have marched east to ajdabiya, on the brink of benghazi. joining us from the rebel stronghold of benghazi, cnn international correspondent arwa damon. is fighting going on despite gadhafi's call for a cease-fire? >> reporter: combat is ongoing, and it is just it as intense as it has been since it began. according to the spokesman, military spokesman for the opposition, there is fighting in at least three parts of the country. to the west, mizurata, the area that's been reported on for quite some time, and around 100 miles west of where we are now, benghazi, the opposition