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we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. gunfire, honking horns, celebrations in cities across libya, marking the death of gadhafi. we re following all the breaking news this hour. the man who ruthlessly ruled the country for 42 years was killed today outside his hometown of sirte. he was 69 years old. president obama said his death marks the end of a long and painful chapter for libya. one year ago, the notion of a free libya seemed impossible. but then the libyan people rose up. and demanded their rights. and when gadhafi and his forces started going city to city, town by town to brutalize men, women and children, the world refused to stand idly by. faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the libyan people, the united states and our friends and allies stopped gadhafi s forces in their tracks. there will be difficult days ahead. but the united states, t ....
Some of these issues. isn t it true your point, governor, that while gath was oir enemy, in the last few years, people were sort of a kumbaya with gadhafi. all of a sudden he was enemy number one. weren t we just having crumb pets and tea with this guy six months ago? it was the moment he handed over his nuclear program.and tes ago? it was the moment he handed over his nuclear program. suddenly he was the guy would he could do business with. so what made him the bad guy all of a sudden? it goes back to lockerbie, his-sflf his was it what changed in egypt or was this something else that all of a sudden made the international community who was doing business with this qguy al of a sudden begin to look at him and go, you know what, we don t want to do that anymore. i think it was a realization that heed a has been a bad guy, but when you took back a lockerbie bomber and the guy was ....
oh, we ve got lightning. we need to go back. let s turn around. oh, it s getting big, big, big. that s huge! for those who survived, the scars will always be them. nearly two dozen people, including three young men, took cover in a convenience store in a walk-in beer cooler. one turned on his camera as the tornado struck. the video is dark, but the sound tells a story. oh! [ wind blowing ] oh, my god! jesus, jesus! imagine pushing open the door after that incredible experience. elsewhere in joplin, one couple recorded the scene in their neighborhood moments after the tornado struck. destruction all around them, homes on fire. they called out for the young man s sister and her fiance. sarah! sarah! mike! of course, there s no end to the heartbreak, but no end to hope either. we met tracy pressler and her niece, sarah norton. they were looking for sarah s brother, will, who was driving home from his graduation with his dad and was sucked out of the sun ....
Libya and syria, that contract has broken down, it has run its course. where i want to challenge you, though, is your harsh criticism of president obama and secretary clinton, because i would ask you, what was the alternative they had, maintaining that relationship with mubarak, with gadhafi, certainly not possible. so is it all in credible to join forces in the democracy that s sweeping north africa than to be a firewall in support of tyranny. i think i m glad they re gone, it s a benefit to america. but we could have kept our mouth shut. we tend to think that muslims are stupid people. that they re going to forget that the united states supported tyranny for 35 years. and we also have become, at least in our political elite, almost marxist leninists. in our belief that democracy is the answer to everything and that it s going to take hold everywhere. ....
an incident that allegedly occurred ten years ago. banon caused a sensation in france when she recounted the incident in 2007. meanwhile, dominique strauss-kahn is spending the night in rikers island, a notorious jail. it s a long way from the 3,000 hotel suite. first, a look at the other stories we re drilling down on tonight. the arabs spring. good news maybe. but not for israel. the cia veteran says it wasn t democracy you saw in tahrir square. it was islamic fundamentalism and donald trump has been fired by donald trump. it s my latest decision. his latest stunt may boost his tv ratings. but what did it do to the republican party? diplomatic immunity. e.d. hill asks if it applies to rape. now, the scandal sending shock waves across the world. let s go to rich ordard roth. he joins me live. reporter: this man, dominique strauss-kahn used to the high life. first-class airplanes, luxury suites now settling in on rikers island off manhattan. he was transpo ....