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A break in fighting to negotiate. >> each side is terrified of the orside. so let's suspend all military operations, all violence right now. >> nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in tripoli right now. he's on the phone with us. where do we stand in terms of the rebels taking control of every part of government there? >> reporter: we just returned a few hundred yards away from gadhafi's compound. there is the still an active battle going on in that area. gadhafi's loyalists, it's unclear how many there are are firing out of his compound with mortars and tanks. we heard small ...

State controlling the city. if that evaporates there's a danger of looting, a doirch of instability. the history tells us that leaderless revolutions are not good for democrats. there's a huge power vacuum that is going to be the subject of intense efforts to try to cease control by many of the tribal leaders that have largely waited by the sidelines here. >> in fact, that's one of the concerns that we talked about months ago when the fighting first began in libya is who are the rebels? who do they have ties to in terms of sponsors, in terms of weapons? it wasn't just nato that we were hearing...