government. of course the libyan government will have assisted people in organizing to make the protests, which are very small and perhaps informing the libyan people that the airport would be a target. hard to imagine how that would be at this stage, but that's the kind of message the libyan government is putting out to its people right now. >> and so, nic, i wonder, too. what is being heard from, or said by colonel moammar gadhafi? we heard hillary clinton, secretary of state of the u.s., talking about while for a moment they thought there might be a cease-fire coming from gadhafi, but then clearly that is not the case. >> reporter: and that is really what we've seen on the ground here. he had said this afternoon through the announcement of a letter that was sent to the french president and the british prime minister and the u.n. secretary general that the u.n. resolution is invalid, that the united nations has no -- has no