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So state-run tv, of course, not covering the uprising. you see fireworks there and anything other than the unrest that the rest of the world has been watching on the streets of benghazi and tripoli. >> you certainly wouldn't know that there was unrest there by looking at those pictures. let's bring back in a libyan-american living in this country 30 years. i asked you about a direct connection, a direct link between egypt and tunisia and other unrest in that area of the world. people were saying before other leaders wouldn't go and they did. what do you make of this? >> remember last saturday,...

[ thunder crashing ] and then, in one blinding blink of an eye, their tree had given its last. but with their raymond james financial advisor, they had prepared for even the unthinkable. ♪ and they danced. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. in recent weeks, libya's moammar gadhafi has seen governments topple to his east and west in egypt and tunisia. >> and now trying to stop it from spreading across his own country. fionnuala sweeney rejoins us live from cairo. fionnuala, we've been talking about egypt and tunisia, and there's a lot of differences when it comes to the uprisi...

Cultivated this image of being kind of an outlier and essentially he doesn't care what anybody in the outside world thinks about him. and a u.s. official we spoke with this evening said gadhafi has been in power, as you know, for 42 years. he is still in power. at least that is what they still believe and that he is not losing his grip on power at all. so the united states at this point, about all it can do is to make very strong urgings to the government of libya to stop violence. and there's grave concern because as that statement by the state department points out, they really don't even kn...

Appeared gadhafi's place as public enemy number one was secured for eternity but it proved to be a short time before the century was out. gadhafi gave up the two libyan suspects behind the bombing of pan am 103. in 2003 libya agreed to compensate the victims and taken off as a country of weapons of mass destruction. within a few years the u.s. had restored full diplomatic relations, just 22 years after ronald reagan tried to kill gadhafi. u.s. secretary of state condoleezza rice visited tripoli and sat down face to face with the man who had once been one of the most hated and reviled men in am...

Is a tribal nation. you're saying, i believe, correct me if i am wrong, you've never seen all the tribes unified like this before but he's saying that the tribes would separate and that it would cause chaos and civil war. >> i don't think -- what he's saying is not true because i don't think even his tribe, his own tribemen will follow him because his tribe is part of libya and they want to be part of libya and part of the big family of libya. the only problem we have in libya is him and his family. they have been oppressing people. they have been abusing power, they have been raping. they hav...