more pargting of ground forces. this time to the east. around misrata. more air strikes and more targeting of the ground here. four days in, wolf, four days of punishing attacks, and the coalition says gadhafi is still violating the terms of the u.n. resolution. he s still on the attack. he shows no signs of backing down. these are the anti-aircraft. he says he s done what he believes to be a fantastic job, wiping out especially the longer, 150 mile range secretary gates believing this has been significantly degraded. another is the libyan air base. this base over here near tripoli was used most often in attacking the opposition. gadhafi is still fighting on the ground and places like misrata is not.
using force until gadhafi stops the bloodshed. one apparent target, a port area in eastern tripoli. joining us from trip clirks our correspondent, nick robertson. you went and saw some of the damage at a bomb raid at the port there in tripoli today. what did you see? reporter: wolf, we were taken to a naval facility in the port area, right in the heart of tripoli and we were taken into a warehouse and inside that warehouse we saw four mobile missile systems that had been burned out. what was quite incredible, they were underneath a tin roof of this large warehouse facility and one of the rockets landed right at the back, almost sort of touching the back of one of the rocket systems there. four of them were lined up and they were all burned out, but the other side of the facility, there were some what looked like more missiles of some description that were being stored at the corn of the facility. officials said this was just a training and repair facility,
enough force to continue to advance toward tripoli and to consolidate more control in the city itself. there is street-to-street fighting in parts of tripoli. neighborhoods are in rebel-controlled territory. just this morning there was some militants, rebels, demonstrators, whatever you want to call them, that were gathered in a mosque. that mosque was then fired upon by a piece of artillery, perhaps even a tank, by gadhafi s forces. there is really urban fighting within tripoli itself. the rebels say they want to move from eastern tripoli to support their allies in tripoli itself. and then to fight to the death, until gadhafi is killed. what they worry is that gadhafi still has enough forces, still has enough power, to launch a kind of devastating attack on a civilian center that would demoralize this movement, perhaps attacking one of the bigger cities in this country that are now in rebel hands from
libya, they re being executed, sometimes being interrogated. we heard a report that a group of mercenaries from chad and niger were captured, given a quick military trial and summarily executed. this is an area that has a feeling of revolutionary justice. they are very excited. there is not a clear leader of this movement in eastern libya. communications are very difficult. there have been some army units that have defected. they have a position of authority. there are some degree of communication, mostly word of mouth, among the rebels themselves. but it is a fairly disorganized movement but one that feels very determined to bring this movement to tripoli. the mood here is definitely one of excitement. they think they have gadhafi on the ropes. they want to keep this going. they re nervous about some sort of reciprocity attack. life is also difficult. there are starting to be shortages of basic commodities like cooking oil, rice and fuel.
the second city of libya with a mixed picture of who is happening in tripoli itself and these actions by gadhafi to go out and say that he is firmly in control but he s losing more and more territory. there are continuing to be defections. just today there are reports one of his own cousins has defected to cairo after yesterday, a minister, the justice minister, defected and that justice minister claiming that he has evidence that gadhafi himself ordered the attack on lockerbie, that pan am flight. wow. question from pat buchanan. pat? richard, from the sources you ve got, how do they think this is going to end? do they believe gadhafi will hold tripoli for a while or do they think it will be a fiery finish for him right there in that city? reporter: fiery fin sish what we re hearing from almost everyone we re speaking to. the rebels hope they can mass