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In the town of ras lanuf, ben wedeman reports the opposition is getting desperate and outgunned, inexperienced and under the constant threat of air strikes. >> reporter: he left his clothing store in benghazi to carry a sam 7 surface-to-air missile but he knows he has little chance of hitting one of those planes. he's losing hope that the much discussed no-fly zone will ever materialize. >> just talk. no have any action, just talking. >> just talk, he says. there has been a lot of talk about a no-fly zone. we wanted to know how hard would it really be, what would that look like? joining us liv...

It is surrounded. there is -- the electricity we understand has been cut off. cell phone service has been cut off. so without getting somebody coming out of there, what we have seen on state television is pictures of people, gadhafi supporters, celebrating, it said live and it said zawia now in english on the state tv screen. but we could see it wasn't in the center of zawia where the rebels are. the buildings are slightly taller. this was on the outskirts. so even the government's attempts to show they're in control aren't convincing at this stage. we just don't know what's happening. >> all ...

Installations, bombing people directly. the people on the ground who are doing the fighting understand that this is -- this isn't boots on the ground, this is just stopping the aircraft. and they think it will make a decisive difference. from my perspective, we have to try. if we do not try, we are choosing not to act. we don't have a -- you know, there's no sort of seeing -- >> you're saying that's a choice? >> if we don't act, we're choosing not to act in the eyes of the libyan opposition and basically siding with gadhafi. >> you think it would be interpreted as siding with gadhafi if we don...

Benghazi. the regime has placed a $500,000 bounty on his head. i want to play some of what he told you earlier. >> translator: it has to be immediate action. the longer the situation carries on, the more blood is shed. that's the message that we want to send to the international community. they have to live up to their responsibility with regards to this. >> so the leaders in benghazi, are they saying clear and are they all in agreement that they want a no-fly zone? >> reporter: oh, anderson, they most definitely do. in fact, there's an increasingly agreeing level of frustration and anger that...

Cell phone service has been cut off. so without getting somebody coming out of there, what we have seen on state television is pictures of people, gadhafi supporters, celebrating, it said live and it said zawia now in english on the state tv screen. but we could see it wasn't in the center of zawia where the rebels are. the buildings are slightly taller. maybe five to seven stories high. this was on the outskirts. so even the government's attempts to show they're in control aren't convincing at this stage. we just don't know what's happening. >> all weekend long, the government was saying they...