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Those countries abandoned their regimes and ultimately the regimes fell. in cases where the military and security forces support these oppressive regime, think algeria, think libya, think bahrain, the regimes seem to be able to withstand the opposition. >> and, fran, i'm just curious. if we look at libya, what we're hearing from the son of gadhafi is that this could actually fall into some kind of civil war because you have benghazi in the east. tripoli in the west and benghazi we understand is now in control of the anti-government protesters and the military isn't abandoning the government in...

There. >> reporter: well, the primary one between egypt and libya is, of course, that here in cairo, it was a peaceful demonstration essentially apart from the attacks on the protesters by the military or the police earlier on in the demonstrations, but essentially it was a peaceful revolution. this is not what is taking place in libya. secondly, there was a strong opposition movement that had been building and building over the last eight years, and then the revolt was led by the young and it galvanized the whole of egypt or the majority of the people, even ordinary families took to the stree...

Saif al islam says the protesters must stop or blood will flow, rivers of blood in all the cities of libya. >> it's very interesting. we haven't seen anything like this, you know, in the mideast and north africa where we're sitting here two weeks ago and it was egypt and now it's happening in egypt. >> two weeks ago we were saying hosni mubarak probably won't fall. he's a strong man. now we're saying gadhafi, a strong man, probably won't fall. we just don't know. why should anyone care what's taking place in libya and the other question is what might be the next move in all this. >> former hom...

As security forces try to quiet the streets, libya has banned journalists in the region. but information and video is leaking out from social media sites. these shots from tripoli were uploaded today on youtube, scenes of chaos in the streets, people setting fires. cnn can confirm the uprising in benghazi. although cnn doesn't confirm post, we cannot -- >> moammar gadhafi has spoken since these protests erupted and did appear on state run tv but we don't know when this was taped. a few hours ago, his son hit the air waves to defend his father's government. he accused outside forces with interf...

This is cnn special coverage of "unrest in libya." the question is, what do you know about libya? about the size of alaska and population of 6.5 million people. >> it's pretty small. more than 90% is desert or semi desert. oil exports make up 80% of the government's revenue. the median age of libyans, young country, 24 years old. it shares borders with algeria, chad, egypt, nigeria and tunisia. let's bring in an author and journalist covering libya extensi extensively. >> he wrote lockerbie and libya, and about the bombing over