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Good sign, but does it mean that the rebels have the springboard that they need now to finally take tripoli, something that, as michelle pointed out, is something they ve been trying to do for seven months? sure. thomas, it looks to me as if the momentum of this has changed, the psychology has changed. we re seeing very high-level defections, and allegedly, reporting that front-line gadhafi forces are starting to abandon their positions. the center of gravity of the whole struggle is now tripoli. 2 million people. ladies and gentlemen of the j y allegedly uprisings by several hundred armed rebel fighters, another brigade of 1,000 or more people prepared to enter the city. the question will be, will gadhafi s people fight for him or not? his tribe will, because they ll think they face extermination, but the rest of them, who he s kept in this balance of power, look to me as if they re starting to leave him. if we talk about what the u.s. needs to do after gadhafi ....
Save safe by saying they re going to leave it up to the tribes. meantime, senator john mccain made a surprise visit to benghazi, calling for greater commitment from the white house. we have prevented the worst outcome in libya. now we need to increase our support so that the libyan people can achieve the only satisfactory outcome to this mass protest of universal rights, the end of gadhafi s rule and beginning of a peaceful and inclusive transition to democracy that will benefit all libyans. he says the international community needs to speed the flow of weapons and training to the opposition but doesn t favor putting american troops in libya. more now with fred pleitgen joining us. he is in tripoli. and in benghazi, reza sayah. fred, are you still hearing planes in the skies? reporter: yeah, we re absolutely still hearing planes in the skies. it looks as though the air raids are still going on here in ....
Tripoli. the last big explosion that we had was less than a minute ago. so it appears that those explosions are still going on. i would say we ve heard close to a dozen pretty big explosions in an around the tripoli area tonight. one of those, of course, apparently coming from the compound, which is gadhafi s compound. and you mentioned they said that there were three fatalities in that air strike, the government saying three people killed when a bomb or rocket hit a parking lot. and i can tell you that we go into that parking lot sometimes when we enter that compound and there are anti-aircraft guns in the direct vicinity of that parking lot. so we re not sure what happened, whether it s true that people were killed in that air strike. however, there are air strikes going on and it does appear as though there were some central tripoli air strikes tonight. we are still trying to get more information on whether or not people were killed. fred, what do you make of the libyan government ....
Would move in and use violence. the big trouble with that is that the deputy foreign minister always seems to make a differentiation between the rebels, as he calls them, and the people of misurata. but clearly, many of the folks i met in misurata said that it is all the people who are doing this uprising. so therefore, they say, as you said, that this is clearly a fact that moammar gadhafi s army has lost the battle inside central misurata. they ve been forced to withdraw from that area and are trying to make that retreat look as though it s a responsible withdrawal. reza, what do you make of libyan forces pulling out of misurata, if in fact they do this. it obviously remains to be seen whether or not they re going to do it. reporter: we can tell you the reaction of the rebel leaders. they actually laughed at this. they re extremely skeptical at this news, they re skeptical that it s true. they suspect it could be yet another ploy by the gadhafi regime and trap them in some sort o ....