abdul-jalil who often went against his vengeful boss. most of them are well educated, experienced, well connected to the west. but they also have some drawbacks, which could end up fracturing this group in the future. ronald has written several books on libya. i have real concerns that the older group that is tied to the regime or outside of the country for a long period of time will be able to relate to the young rebels in libya and provide effective leadership that the rebels will accept. ambassador jalil counters by saying plenty unifies the group. they all want a unified libya, and they all want tripoli as the capitol. we do have to say that he represents the rebels in washington. he has a dog in this fight. he broke with gadhafi. he s now the ex-ambassador as far as the state department is concerned. brian, thanks very much. as libyan troops push back
the ragtag rebel army is again on the move. this weekend, retaking the city ajdabiya. and heading west towards tripoli, libya s capital and colonel gadhafi s power base, the ultimate goal, regime change. it is u.s. policy that gadhafi needs to go, but little is known about the opposition. just who is the international coalition supporting? in libya, you have an unbelievably complicated mosaic and overlay of tribes and families and the rest. anyone who speaks with any confidence that we know what would succeed gadhafi, if, in fact, gadhafi were to fall or fail, i simply don t buy it. many of the rebel soldiers are civilians, but some of the leaders were once high-ranking members of libya s government like must staff that jalil, like the justice minister, now head of the opposition, interior minister abdel younis is leading the offensive.
back to the west retreating. the ragtag rebel army is again on the move. this weekend, retaking the city ajdabiya. and heading west towards tripoli, libya s capital and colonel gadhafi s power base, the ultimate goal, regime change. it is u.s. policy that gadhafi needs to go, but little is known about the opposition. just who is the international coalition supporting? in libya, you have an unbelievably complicated mosaic and overlay of tribes and families and the rest. anyone who speaks with any confidence that we know what would succeed gadhafi, if, in fact, gadhafi were to fall or fail, i simply don t buy it. many of the rebel soldiers are civilians, but some of the leaders were once high-ranking members of libya s government like must staff that jalil, like the justice minister, now head of the opposition, interior
because of the fact that if they ve switched sides once before from the libyan military to the rebels, what s to say they re not going to switch sides again. and you say there are people just picking up megaphones, who is leading? who is leading this group that we call the opposition? you know, in uprisings a lot of times we see a face of a movement. one person who emerges as a leader. it s not so in this case. there are several people emerging as rebel leaders. one is omar hariri. a former rebel for libya who led an up rising in 1975. unsucce unsuccessful, but he s back leading people. and heftir returned from exile to help here. there s younis, a former interior minister of gadhafi s cabinet and jalil is the former justice minister for gadhafi.
the news starts now. first to libya. the transitional government declaring after an eight month civil war that toppled gadhafi. you are looking at live pictures of the celb@ation are they being overshadowed by calls for an investigation into the circumstances of gadhafi s death? reporter: massive celebrations now in the eastern city of benghazi after the official announcement by the head of the national transition council that the whole of the country has now been liberated. he called for$énity and reconciliation after eight months of a bloody civil war, which may have claimed the lives of perhaps 30,000 people. there s been celebrations here in the capital tripoli. perhaps more muted, because jalil did ask that there be no celebratory gunfire because he said it was injuring civilians and was of course a waste of ammunition.