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Outgunned opposition forces are trying to hold off army troops and hold on to territory. and assets and momentum which has been gained in the past three weeks. momentum, however, now seems to be on the army's side. but we haven't heard of any big, new military victories in libya. i do want to point out two other cities, benghazi where the leadership is headquarters and zawiya in the far west, where they're bombing government fighters with tanks and warplanes but still failing to retake the center city. the oil city, benghazi, opposition headquarters, zawiya just of tripoli. tripoli itself, rig...

Capital. tripoli itself, where independent reporting is almost impossible, security forces are said to be the only people who dare to even venture out. gadhafi himself is lying low, but he called into state tv to blame the unrest on young people by drugs and brainwashed by osama bin laden. >> translator: the demand is not their demand. the demand is bin laden's demand. the masses have nothing to do. why do you try to drag bin laden into our country? why do you listen? you're taught and you're brainwashed by bin laden telling you what to do. >> in fact, the north african wing of al qaeda has en...

Good chance of reaching the capital, tripoli itself. the more immediate threat for gadhafi's regime is the fighting that is going on in these two towns just on the outskirts of tripoli itself, and that is where we've seen some of the heaviest fighting over the last several days. >> richard, what about the reports that rebel forces have captured and detained eight british special forces soldiers? what do we know about that and the why behind it? >> reporter: the why appears to have been some confusion. the british special forces here who are now working on a negotiated release with the rebels, ...