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>> anthony: morning in misrata. >> man: how's the vibe? >> man: it's all quite quiet and, and cool at the moment. >> anthony: daylight reveals the extent of the fighting that took place here, not so long ago. >> hamid: this here used to be a vegetable market. clothes. one of gaddafi's soldier's clothes. >> anthony: he left them here and ran. >> hamid: yeah. was that, uh, what they did in tripoli? >> anthony: yeah. >> hamid: we went into the city, they just removed their clothes and ran away in the streets, so nobody would know who, who are they. >> anthony: this is hamid, one of the guys we ca...

Enormous compound. >> anthony: most everything belonging to or associated with gaddafi was destroyed. nato continually bombed strategic locations within the compound. and on august 23rd, 2011, it fell to the rebels, gaddafi and his family having fled. this is what's left of gaddafi's palace.

Fighting. that's we why give it all of blood from my country. because i wanted feeling that. the taste of freedom. >> anthony: the taste of freedom. >> johar: is nice taste. >> man: food place, good? >> anthony: good food. outside tripoli's center, there's this, one-time axis of all power and untold evil. a huge complex of sinister offices, barracks, residences, on top of a rabbit warren of secret tunnels and underground facilities. the bab al-azizia -- gaddafi's

Get to misrata before dark. traveling at night around here is not advised. >> man 1: i would drop the camera pretty soon. >> man 2: yeah, yeah. >> man 1: stop the camera. stop that. >> man 2: oh. >> anthony: pulling into town after dark, it doesn't feel like a happy place to be right now. misrata was where some of the fiercest and most heroic struggles of the war occurred. resistance was the most determined, and the response by the gaddafi forces, especially merciless. we've just learned that earlier in the day a city councilman who was a hero of the revolution was assassinated. and it's not c...

>> anthony: did anyone think it was possible that in their lifetime they were going to see the end of this son of a bitch? most people are telling me they never dreamed. >> akram: i don't know if you can call them dreams, hopes, wishes. it was just something in the sky. something i look at every night. >> anthony: right. >> akram: but when i hit that point and got into misrata and stood on gaddafi's body, any dream will come true. >> anthony: what's the situation now? >> akram: uh, it's fluid. it can swing any direction. >> anthony: well, look, what happened in benghazi a few months ago, i mea...