issued a statement called into libyan state television to, well, have his say with the libyan people as he works to overthrow our actually put down the rebels that have been trying to overthrow his government. our correspondent steve harrigan is live in the libyan capital of tripoli. steve, how has the libyan leader responded there? what has he said? [horns blowing] >>ed mood here has changed over the last 24 hours. the crowd behind me is mad and firing up in the air. we just heard from colonel qaddafi. he said this u.n. resolution is craziness. he said if the world is crazy with us, we will be crazy with the world. we will retaliate. there will be no peace. so clearly colonel qaddafi threatening retaliation even as he threatens the last rebel strong hold of benghazi, already in the past 24 hours libyan government planes have been bombing the outskirts of that city of 1 million people. and, of course, this u.n. resolution designed to save the