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Jenna: we heard a report from the french wire service yesterday in a al-qaida is setting up an emirates, a mini state if you will inside of libya. again just one report, but do you think it could happen? >> it could happen. libya is a nation of tribes, and we fail to recognize that many times. a lot of those tribal leaders are now throwing their lot in with the protesters and the antiqaddafi forces. if one of the tribal leaders embraced al-qaida obviously in that area they could set up some kind of rum state that they could describe as a break away part of libya. i don't think that is going to...

And iran. sane shungs are something out there potentially we should do have a country. do you think that is the path we should go on? >> the united states at this point needs to do several things. make sure we clear out as many american civilians as rapidly as possible and avoid any potential for repeat of the iran hostage crisis at our embassy there. second, there needs to be a very clear, unequivocal statement by the president and senior people in the administration that the violence is untenable and that the end of the qaddafi era must come unless he ends this violence. third, with respect ...

About that? >> well i was arrested in 1976 and held in a variety of different places in libya, and then finally in the zizi barracks i was expelled from the country. my on the ground knowledge of libya is rather old at this point. i haven't been back since then. jenna: what were you doing there? >> i was there on business. jenna: i wanted our viewers to know that because obviously that does change maybe your insight into the country as we take a look at it now that you mention a few decades later. is libya the next yemen? >> it could be. it's ironic that you have the former, perhaps top terror...

Today, and they may even join in with some of those countries so if the governments are toppled they may able to play a role in any new regime in a comes out of it. that is one of the things we have to be concerned about in places like libya and perhaps yemen as well. jenna: what do you think about catherine herridge's report and that was from senior officials saying that al-qaida may be weaker or weak evening or becoming less relevant as we see the rise of these social revolts due to social media instead of let's say meetings of al-qaida in a city or in a region? >> well, look, al-qaida is no...

Of al-qaida activity there are more protests there as they want the 30-year president to step down. lastly we move to bahrain where they have taken up residence in the main traffic circle in bahrain as people did here in cairo and t tahrir square. we have the meeting going on between the king of bahrain and the sing of saudi arabia as they try to figure out a which to put down the throw tests and perhaps pacify all of these demonstrators. of course right now back in the united states and around the world the price of oeufl is sky robting, greg, that is with what is going on in libya, bahrain a...