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Back from washington. >> reporter: it is almost 25 years since ronald reagan called muammar qaddafi the mad dog of the middle east and that gives you a good idea of what things have been like in that country, for all of this time and, even beforehand. it was 1981. when he laid claim to a big chunk of the gulf of sidra, an american f-14, ended up having to shoot down two libyan fighter jets in self-defense. five years later, our 6th fleet sailed over the imaginary line in the same gulf of sidra. muammar qaddafi called the line of death and when challenged, our navy ended up sinking two of their...

And givers you an idea what things have been like in that country all that time and beforehand. 1981 when gaddafi laid claim to a huge chunk of gulf of sidra and the 6th fleet flew over the imagery line that gaddafi called the line of death and when challenged our navy ended up having to sink two of their ships and couple months after that, president reagan ordered powerful air strikes, very powerful against libya days after a bomb blast at labelle nightclub to berlin killed two american servicemen and a turkish woman. reagan said at the time we had irrefutable evidence that libya was behind t...

Hem hostage. >> and the reason that president sarkozy of france has been so much more forth coming and outspoken on the issue, the french and rest of the european companies have many thousands of internationals in-- it's true that americans might be uniquely vulnerable, but on the other hand, the united states, has unique leverage over the libyans. >> wait, what is the leverage? we don't really talk to gadhafi very much. the argument is we don't have any levining, what i keep reading in the papers and we have something called the 6th fleet and the 6th fleet can destroy the libyan navy, can des...

Hem hostage. >> and the reason that president sarkozy of france has been so much more forth coming and outspoken on the issue, the french and rest of the european companies have many thousands of internationals in-- it's true that americans might be uniquely vulnerable, but on the other hand, the united states, has unique leverage over the libyans. >> wait, what is the leverage? we don't really talk to gadhafi very much. the argument is we don't have any levining, what i keep reading in the papers and we have something called the 6th fleet and the 6th fleet can destroy the libyan navy, can des...

Taking to the streets demanding sweeping political reform from the country's sunni monarchy. security forces pulling back after earlier crashes left two people dead and dozens of others injured. bahrain is home to the u.s. navy's 6th fleet and a linchpin to our forces in the gulf. in libya the government is trying to quell the unrest by offering big pay raises to government employees. they say they will release islamic militants who oppose gadhafi. we are waiting for a reaction from the state department on the first killing of ain't s. officer in mexico in 25 years. jaime zapata was killed whe...