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Fighters alongside the main routes here going from benghazi to abdijaya trying to put together whatever weapons they've managed to recuperate from gadhafi's forces following the air strikes. you see them on the side of the road trying to put together the damaged multiple barreled rocket launchers. we see them trying to haul the tanks away, trying to repair those. this is really how they've been arming themselves. they have basically been cobbling together bits and pieces of weapons that they're finding. what they carry into the battlefield is whatever they have recovered from weapon storage fa...

>> arwa, there have been reports i think it was in "the wall street journal," that opposition forces may have been receiving weapons, i think it was through egypt. have you seen any evidence that they have new weaponry at all? >> reporter: no, anderson, we haven't. we've also heard various reports that weapons have been coming from egypt and some other countries. we've been asking the opposition leadership, their military leadership about this. they're denying that any sort of government is sending them weapons, that they are receiving weapons from the outside. what we do see is opposition fig...

Better be ready to step in. it could be the arab league or the french or some other european union but you need a lot of help on the opposition and some peace keeping force because there will be a security vacuum. the one thing we can predict if the opposition ever does get rid of gadhafi their one common thread will disappear. and for all we know they will fight among themselves. so you have to provide national order because gadhafi never allowed an army to grow up that has a national reach. even if we are successful, this is going to be extraordinarily messy. >> people say, look, we know who...

Rachd haas raising many of the questions about where we go from here. what do you make of that? >> as much as i like richard, i disagree on just about every point. let's look at it in terms of where we were a week ago, where we didn't even have a u.n. resolution. then we get a u.n. resolution that is supported by a remarkable coalition of countries, including lebanon, colombia, nigeria, other countries. then saturday, the first planes are in the air. that's only 3 1/2 days ago. in 3 1/2 days, we have stopped gadhafi in his tracks, we prevented a massacre in benghazi. we are making progress and...

What we do see is opposition fighters alongside the main routes here going from benghazi to abdijaya trying to put together whatever weapons they've managed to recuperate from gadhafi's forces following the air strikes. you see them on the side of the road trying to put together the damaged multiple barreled rocket launchers. we see them trying to haul the tanks away, trying to repair those. this is really how they've been arming themselves. they have basically been cobbling together bits and pieces of weapons that they're finding. what they carry into the battlefield is whatever they have rec...