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Results. moammar gadhafi is now dead. >> when gadhafi and his forces started going city to city, down by town to brutalize men, women and children, the world refused to stand idly by. faced with the potential of mass atrocities, and a call for help from the libyan people, the united states and our friends and allies stopped gadhafi's forces in their tracks, without putting a single u.s. servicemember on the ground, we achieved our objectives. and our nato mission will soon come to an end. working in libya with friends and allies, we have demonstrated what collective action can achieve in the 2...

Conflict. though there were high level defections of libyan officials early on, gadhafi turned the might of the military, including the na militias run by his sons, against the rebels, the people against him. the rebels did not have skills or training it fight very hard no matter how hard they wanted to fight, no matter how much they were willing to sacrifice. >> another rebel showed me he isn't actually armed at all. it is a s a toy gun. this is amazing. he just handed me his gun. it is actually just made of plastic. it is a toy. >> rebels have no communications, no commanders. but they do ha...

Gleefully overran his compound in tripoli. since taking tripoli, rebels consolidated gains. took control of basically every city and every region in libbo except for gadhafi's hometown of sirte. today sirte fell to the rebels. reportedly while fleeing sirte, moammar gadhafi was killed. i want to show some of what we know happened today. fair warning here, some of these images are a little bit graphic. we will not show them for very long. these images show gadhafi apparently wounded. maybe still alive. but captured in the back of some vehicle. you can see gadhafi raising his arm here, see, as h...

But then the american relationship with gadhafi went from us bombing libya in 1986 because he was that kind of country and that kind of tyrant, it went from us bombing them in 1986 to this kind of thing. official visit by a delegation of american senators led by arizona republican john mccain. who even tweet bed this trip. tweeted about staying up all night with the colonel and what an interesting man gadhafi was. today in response to the news of gadhafi's death in libya, senator mccaine said, quote, i think it is a great day. >> i think it is a great day. i think the administration deserves g...

Do you expect there could be more violence that there could be left over elements of the gadhafi regime or from anyone else who might have this insurgency against the new government in libya? >> well, the war is over. and the war against gadhafi and his regime ended today. there could be elements who decided to set off a car bomb in tripoli or benghazi. that's possible. you don't need very many people to carry out a couple of terrorist attacks or open fire some place. but a war that involves rebel column columns, moving to advance, to drive back cities and take over cities. no, i think that ph...