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And at the same time, the fighting is continuing at this hour at quadaffi s hometown of sert. the rebel fighters pushed to within a mea mile of the town center. they are trying to expand west of the city but they do say that they are not pushing from other fronts because they want to help civilians get out and get away from the fighting there. at the same time today the libyan authorities announced they found a mass grave here in tripoli. over 1200 bodies of men were found near tripoli s prison. it is believed these people were killed during a protest at that jail back in 1996. so grim news from here. back to you, shannon. absolutely. david piper there with the latest in tripoli. thanks, david. shannon: the justice department has been taking a lot of heat from critics over ....
reporter: despite the ongoing fighting else yr, tripoli has been peaceful for nearly a month since the rebels took over here. the u.s. embassy has reopened after it was attacked during the quadaffi regime. a new start for u.s. libyan relations after decades of hostility. the embassy in libya is the ambassador s official residence after the last one was burn down during the uprising. a man in libya says he is surprised to have returned so quickly after threats from the old rime. to be back here and experience talking to libyan ps on the street. i m back for 24 hours and had so many of them say to me i don t want to eat, i don t want to drink, i just want to feel free. and people were exploring the freedom in different ways. people flocked to the renamed martyr square where quadaffi used to stage his rallies. and good business to be had in selling rebel member memorabi. ....
The frontlines. bill: a taxi. hired some guy and said take me to the war. that was happening a lot. and interest there we no got a small rebel convoy. we stopped, passed the checkpoint, heard quadaffi forces were very close, not a minute later two heavily armed quadaffi pickup trucks came over the hill. bill: you stand there and identify yourself. the fire was so heavy we pressed ourself as far as we could to the ground. bill: so they were shooting at you. was killed.mmere and continue he had a lot of experience with south african papers. based in london. that s too bad. what did the rebels do? quickly got out of there. bill: you are on the ground and the rebels split and ....
The frontlines. bill: a taxi. hired some guy and said take me to the war. that was happening a lot. and interest there we no got a small rebel convoy. we stopped, passed the checkpoint, heard quadaffi forces were very close, not a minute later two heavily armed quadaffi pickup trucks came over the hill. bill: you stand there and identify yourself. the fire was so heavy we pressed ourself as far as we could to the ground. bill: so they were shooting at you. was killed.mmere and continue he had a lot of experience with south african papers. based in london. that s too bad. what did the rebels do? quickly got out of there. bill: you are on the ground and the rebels split and ....
Quadaffi s guys come and take you captive. where did they take you? to a safe house and tied us up and told us look, you going to go to tripoli based on what had happen to the new york times reporters we knew we were going to go to tripoli and bedetained for some time. how long did it take? we spent two days in sirte and then we were in a military tee tension center. bill: along the way did they rough you up. initially struck with the butt of an ak 47, punched. very young soldiers. once we were captured the tension calmed way down. bill: they didn t abuse you. did they interrogate you? they interrogated me for six hours irnishially and find of felt like a mind gape. one guy would be playing kind of good cop. one guy would come in yelling and saying we think you are ....