qaddafi forces are taking full advantage of the coalition air strikes and today antiqaddafi forces. senior current rick levinthal is live in benghazi with the latest. hello, rick. reporter: shannon, to call this a dramatic turn of events would be an understatement. it was 8 days ago the qaddafi tanks were in southern benghazi shelling across the street from our hotel. since then the nato fighter jets have been pushing them back and destroying tanks along the way. 100 miles south of benghazi down to ajdabiya. there were a number of towns in qaddafi troop s control have now returned to the hands of opposition fighters including a key oil refinery and storage facility city where according to the rebels they can now begin producing oil and exporting it to neighbors. we saw a gun camera video from royal fighter yets that showed
jenna: we heard a report from the french wire service yesterday in a al-qaida is setting up an emirates, a mini state if you will inside of libya. again just one report, but do you think it could happen? it could happen. libya is a nation of tribes, and we fail to recognize that many times. a lot of those tribal leaders are now throwing their lot in with the protesters and the antiqaddafi forces. if one of the tribal leaders embraced al-qaida obviously in that area they could set up some kind of rum state that they could describe as a break away part of libya. i don t think that is going to last, though and i don t think that al-qaida is going to be warmly embraced throughout the country, but if there is a civil war in the country you have to