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>> reporter: that's right. that happened this afternoon here, landed there, and we've since learned from government sources inside malta that the pilots were defecting because they had been ordered to bomb their own citizens in libya. and we actually have learned from that government source also that the fighter jets were armed with bombs and that the machine guns were loaded when they appear to have fled the country. >> so that's what's happening, as we look at these pictures out of malta. you also mentioned tripoli. we know the result started in the number two city of bengazi. this is import...

Demonstrators. this whole story is moving very, very quickly now. in fact, last night the u.s. state department tells embassy people, their families, get out of libya. and we start hearing about these riots reaching now the capital city, tripoli. so far the violence has flared up only in other cities, libya's ambassador to the arab league resigned saying moammar gadhafi is in his words finished, done. then gadhafi's son goes on libyan tv, here he is, saying the protests must end. or, he says, quote, forget about democracy, forget about reform, and warns of a bloody civil war. we need to point ...