megalomania and he now has a crisis beyond what he expected. he thought that he would to go to benghazi, liquidate the free libya and just get on it with it. he now faces a superior force in the coalition raid against him. but it is the same, i, i, the same disgusting pronoun from this man. so, when the people in tripoli and elsewhere in libya hear his words, what s the reaction? what would you assume would be the reaction, because he wants to rally them to his support? i don t know i can imagine, i once spoke of this fen phone no, ma am as the stock whom syndrome in libya. he has been their prisoner, their jailer, given his truth, his green book, his you the rances, his insanity and trying to tell them they are not alone in the world, that the world is with them had. what is interesting al jazeera.net had a survey, hard lit most pro-american group, you might american.
is he voicing doubts about the libya campaign? breaking news, political headlines and jeanne moos all straight ahead. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. they were heart stopping moments for the american military when a u.s. 15 striped eagle went down over libya. the pilot and weapons officer bailed out, were rescued and are now safely out of libya. the military says the jet crashed because of mechanical problems. a commander says moammar gadhafi s troops are keeping up their assault on civilians. and allied air forces have continued to hammer libyan targets. that includes a strike on a port area in tripoli that damaged several buildings. and joining us once again, nic robertson in tripoli. any indications, nick, based on what you can personally see that
of a crack there. good indications for us that his sons are still in communication with the outside world. so i take it given the fear in tripoli, there s no signs of significant civil unrest. protesters marching on the street against gadhafi, as we ve seen in other countries in north africa and the middle east. wolf, if we were to do that now, they would be in incredible danger. the regime is on a war footing right now. they wouldn t tolerate it. the regime loyalists here are all very heavily armed. every time there s a demonstration here and gadhafi s loyalists come out and shoot their guns in the air, this is a visual, psychological message for opposition supporters that the regime is ready to put you down.
nick robertson in tripoli for us. a massive blaze at the interior ministry following a demonstration of thousands of workers demanding higher wages. protesters deny setting the fire. government says an electrical malfunction could be to blame. the al qaeda stronghold of yemen, the embattled president, abdullah saleh warns of all-out civil war after his offer to accept step down at the beginning of next jeer rejected. opponents are demand resign immediate squlichl in syria, hundreds of protesters taking to the streets, chanting bring down the regime this is the sixth straight day of demonstrations in syria. organizers are planning mass protests this friday as well. in the midst of the coalition air strikes in libya there is political infighting of here will take charge of the mission. we will talk about the support and the concerns within the arab world. and account u.s. afford military action in libya at a time of budget cuts and belt
helping put out the fire there he said just a few people had had light injuries but apparently we were told most people weren t in the harbor area at the time, it was attacked at night, very precise targeting on the missile systems and inside the warehouses themselves, wolf. any other major strikes in the tripoli area today that occurred? reporter: nothing we have seen or heard so far, and nothing the government has told us about or taken us to see, wolf. the skies over tripoli, they have been illuminated the first few night, you have not seen that at least not yet? there was a small burst, a couple of small bursts of anti-aircraft gunfire, but my guess is it was for training or people setting up the equipment because the weapons systems because it wasn t sustained and we didn t really hear any sort of explosions around then. my guess is short bursts.