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Was an anssassination attempt o moammar gadhafi. the interesting thing is whether there is a bunker under need that building. we were not allowed to inspect the rubble to that point, we were only allowed to stand in front of it. >> i cannot ask you what you were allowed to see because i suppose you just don't know. we are seeing these pictures. we just showed them from the libyan state television of gadhafi today, hours after this strike. what does this say to you? vintage gadhafi? defiant gadhafi? >> reporter: vintage gadhafi, defiant gadhafi and very much

Headway. >> and defy ans, that video of gadhafi today, watching television against this backdrop, is all the more stark. there is this picture we've been showing which is the award winning picture that tim hetherington took. again, in awarding it, they said this one man's exhaustion speaks to the exhaustion of a nature. he was a storyteller. what do you think the story of his death should be? >> god, there isn't really a good answer to that, jessica. i think some things are just -- they're tragic and they're explicable in a general sense but when somebody dies, i don't think you say, hey, this...

Know how to react, and both of those governments lost power. >> richard, i want to play you some of what president obama said about why international action is being taken against gadhafi today. >> instead of respecting the rights of his own people, gadhafi chose the path of brutal suppression. innocent civilians were beaten, imprisoned, and in some cases killed. people's protests were forcefully put down. hospitals were attacked and patients disappeared. a campaign of intimidation and repression began. >> that does not sound like it is unique to libya, perhaps in severity, but a lot of this w...

Countries couldn't agree on anything. now there is a resolution. nato has said if there's a u.n. resolution and if the regional organization, the arab league and others, endorse this that they could be ready to act. if this resolution is exploited, it authorizes the united states through nato now to conduct air strikes as early as tomorrow against advancing gadhafi forces who are about to go into benghazi, promised by gadhafi today, and start wreaking revenge and slaughter on the people who rebelled against him. that's authorized now. that's allowed. that's legal. now, whether the u.s. is full...

City of brega. at the same time pro-gadhafi forces escalated counteroffenses closer to tripoli. we go live to the rebel strong hold of benghazi. this sounds like a full-fledged civil war, stephanie. >> reporter: i think that's what it's become. now you have for the first time today pro-gadhafi forces going after places here in the east that have been firmly in control of the opposition now for over a week. the town they went after first this morning called brega is not much of a town but an air strip and port where they export oil and then he moved on with some of his fighter jets to a town th...