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Once again tonight, ordinary libyans are trying to get the message out, even at great risk to their lives. we are not giving this woman's name, but we would be honored to meet her when this is over. we spoke a short time ago. how dangerous are the streets right now? >> now tripoli is a ghost town. i will assure you that, it's a ghost town. there's nobody walking in the street, nobody is trying to get out, even to look through the window. it's a little scary. it is scary. >> you're afraid right now? >> honestly, yes. >> and you don't go near the windows, you don't want to go outside, you don't ...

Blackmail europe. he's the one that made the famous statement that unless he's indulged, he would turn europe black, he would unleash on europe floods of african immigrants. he's played the game to perfection. >> there's an important distinction with mubarak and saddam hussein. libya and gadhafi has killed americans and attacked americans and attacked british soil. that makes a big distinction. >> it's got to outrage you to hear these libyan diplomats now, the libyan ambassador to the u.s., representatives of the u.n., now all of a sudden saying we're with the people, we're not with gadhafi an...

About the black people and the european, eastern european people recruited to contribute in this massacre. it's nonsense. i thought that he's going to give a threat or a warning for this to stop. i expected more to be honest. i expected to read between the lines from his speech. i did not see that. i was very disappointed. not me alone. everybody was disappointed. we want america to support us. >> if you are hiding in your home and the streets are not safe to go out on, how are you able to hold onto hope? >> i'm hopeful because from the response from the people. i've been trying to see who is ...

That fear has been defeated, there is no turning back. >> i was struck by the same thing. i was struck in tahrir square the number of people i would be interviewing. i would say, what's your name? they would say it's mohammed with two ms. get my name down. i want to be in the newspaper. there's two very powerful i think voices or themes you heard coming out of these revolutions. one, is we are not afraid of anymore. we have so little to lose. the regime has stripped us of that. the other you hear, and i believe that libyan said it last night, i heard this in egypt, i'm now proud to say i'm a l...

There were several large bases in the area, and they do seem to have taken control of all of them. but it's not clear. we haven't seen any tanks in the street. we haven't seen any aircraft that they have. so it's not clear really how much they can really -- they can get their hands on. >> let's hope it doesn't come to that. ben wedeman, thank you for the reports. coming up, can't talk about libya and the entire region without talking about oil. tom friedman talks about an addiction to oil. keep it coming and keep it cheap and the world will turn a blind eye to what's going on in the region. ...