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For now, at least, the international coalition is taking them at their word. >> and as the old saying goes in that part of the world, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. >> is my friend. and one of the most eloquent voices, john, of the libyan revolution has been silenced. a sniper's bullet silenced 27-year-old mohamed nabus last saturday. in the early days, he dared to report on the uprising in benghazi despite knowing it would put his life at risk. and last month on the day that he watched his friends die, he spoke to us about what he was witnessing in libya. you believe that your life is in...

Radicals and presenting himself as a warrior who has brought glory to libyans. but overnight we know that the people who were protesting in green square for his 41-year rule to end was gunned down in the streets. human rights watch says at least 233 people are killed. carl bernstein, you've been listening to this speech. what do you make of it? >> well, it's ham bli irambling coherent in a way. it's the history of libya and the only appeal he can make. libya is a country of about 7 million people. during the occupation by italy, the imiperial period, about a fifth of the people of libya died, ...

About how the world should be run, his personal man i fast toe. nobody wants to hear this. talking about protestors on drugs, he's talking about a revolution in 1986 when u.s. aircraft bombed libya. what about the libyan aircraft that bombed their own people yesterday and killed hundreds? nobody is talking about that. gadhafi needs to reach up. if he wants to reach the people, end this peacefully, he needs to offer reform and peace. by threatening to murder people, he's going to make this worse. i think you're looking at the last throes of a dictator far past his expiration date. >> i do want ...

At people in the streets is certainly no way to win the citizenry over. this is beyond that point now. it's beyond the point of no return in terms of, yes, he is now arguing to what elements he can. i am the revolution. i am the person who has brought us beyond the colonial powers that had dominated us until oil was discovered in 1959 and we became this power because of it. but we also became this power because of me, he's saying, because we stood up to the same interests that are now trying to encourage from the outside, as he would have it, this revolution that now is against him. >> but he ...

This revolution, he has been the leader of the so-called libyan revolution when he and other men took over the country. we seem to have elements of a civil war of some sort, but the question is whether he is able to rally enough people into their holmes and sames -- that' report ron allen did -- that these protests certainly in tripoli will dissipate to some extent and that will enable him to restore some kind of order and ap peer to be in charge and put the idea of civil war away. and at the same time there are signs elsewhere in the country particularly that this has moved into a kind of civ...