now it appears that they are depending more on small mobile units that, for instance, today ambushed outside of brega to the west of brega, and that caused a panic among the rebel forces even though eyewitnesses say they were ambushed by just a couple dozen men and people who were ambushed had very heavy machine guns and they just caused panic in the ranks and we saw they came straight in to ajdabiya where they seem to be regrouping at the moment but yet again this underscores the disorganization and sort of the institutional chaos among rebels who simply are not able to hold ground and really move forward very much. certainly my colleague arwa damon followed the rebels to bin
with the gentleman i was talking to. it was clear he wasn t a huge fan of the regime, he wasn t carrying a green flag with him. but the government minder, when i asked this man a question that might he might have just given me something, some piece of information against the regime, there was a government official standing over my shoulder telling him some of the things to say. so it s little wonder that people don t dare come up and speak to us. there were officials around us and people were trying to tell them what to say, anderson. arwa damon, you re in benghazi tonight. you were with opposition fighters in bin jawad today. last night when we spoke, you talked about the opposition momentum having stopped. it now just hasn t stopped, it seems like there s been a big reversal. what happened today? reporter: that s right, anderson. we caught up with opposition fighters as they were coming under a heavy artillery barrage.
going to join us at 7:30 eastern with more on this frightening story. new developments in libya. first, rebel fighters have been driven out of one of the towns they were trying to gain ground in bin jawad. rebels are battling troops loyal to gadhafi. this is in eastern libya. meantime, president obama says he s not ruling out the possibility of arming the opposition to help them gain ground. later today in washington, administration officials will give members of congress a classified briefing on the situation in libya. there are also new developments in syria this morning. the president of syria expected to address the nation soon. he accepted the resignation of his cabinet yesterday. this is a move that other nations recently tried in an attempt to cool things down. people gathered in damascus to support the president yesterday. and state-run media claims the crowd was in the millions. trying to get the images out of
they told us the barrage had begun in the morning and there were snipers in bin jawad shooting at them. they say they stood their ground for as long as they could, but after seven hours we saw them forced to turn around and retreat all the way to the outskirts of ras lanuf and then outside of ras lanuf, we saw and heard explosions, dark smoke rising. artillery fire. we saw the opposition fires trying to shoot back with artillery, rocket-propelled grenades, multibarreled rocket launchers. they were intent on standing their ground, but it seems as if they re beginning to lose that area, as well. what has changed is that they have not come across just gadhafi s military at this point, but it appears as if it is regrouping and standing up against the opposition. but also up against residents in
colonel gadhafi s opposition. all right. the rebels are facing new setbacks pro gadhafi forces have pushed them back from an area near bin-jawad. the rebels are holding the yellow shaded areas but there are still separatic battles. heavy fighting has not let up in the city of misrata. washar al assad is going to address his nation amid growing national unrest. he s trying to reassure his people and they ll bring the speech to you live here on cnn when it happens. as the awakening spreads to syria, there are indications