to her, but in terms of setting a precedent for the democratic party to believe in, president obama did accomplish that goal. he did not satisfy republicans at all. one interesting caveat i will say, senator john mccain, the president s opponent actually said he enjoyed hearing president obama clearly state what the policy was in libya. he remained shall we say unaware of how gadhafi would be removeed fr per wldikmo iorti outh, t ppti o what the president s actions were there. john mccain maybe going back to the maverick style by being more supportive of president obama than his conference there. the whole question of what happens with kaahamanu gadhafi is a key one. what are we expect something. a tough grilling from the folks and the administration
us how gadhafi s troops were calling on civilians to come out insisting it was safe and then firing on them when they tried to leave their homes. very disturbing stories coming out of abdijaya, sanjay. it sounds just awful to watch. arwa, you can see from the images there, but what is morale overall from the people you ve been talking to? do they have any confidence that gadhafi and his forces can be defeated? reporter: they re living out there, there s very little water, there s no electricity. the conditions are visibly very difficult. they re relying on handouts being brought down by volunteers from benghazi. yet all of these families who we met are refusing to leave for one simple reason and that is because every single night when they go to sleep by their fires, they wake up believing the next morning that somehow the opposition will have defeated gadhafi s forces, that abdijaya is going to be safe, and that they will be able to go back home.
reporter: sanjay, it s harsh living conditions and it s a very harsh battleground that they came out of. we were talking to the father of a little 12-year-old boy. while he was telling us about how they had to drive out with tank rounds raining down around them, artillery falling, his son standing next to him began to cry and he was trying to hide this. he cradled his pet in his arms. he didn t want us to see his tears. his father said that he s becoming typical behavior for him, just up able to control his emotions, the psychological impact that this has been having on him. this particular family told us about running street battles. another young man who we spoke to was talking about how five of his neighbors, young men themselves, were taken out of their homes forcibly by gadhafi s forces. a number of people were telling us how gadhafi s troops were calling on civilians to come out insisting it was safe and then firing on them when they tried
they had fled anywhere from two weeks toesterday and all of them were telling us horrific storth we spoke with one man who spoke of battles in the streets between opposition fighters and gadhafi s military. he spoke of tanks firing indiscriminate indiscrinately. his 12-year-old son was standing next to him. we asked him how he was feeling. he said he s scared. he he sounded normal, but he tryg to hide the fact that he was crying. his father said that obviously what he had witnessed had a severe psychological impact on him. another young man we spoke to, a number of families, actually, telling us how gadhafi s military was going throughnd ars and rounding up the young men, taking them away, never to be heard of again. no one knows where they are,d they re even dead or alive. we al heard stories of how gadhafi s military would call on civilians to come out, prising them to be safe and then
into apartment blocks, how gadhafi s troops were firing automatic machine guns, laughing the entire time. on saturday, the opposition managed to push gadhafi s military out of benghazi. they were out of no illusion they would be able to push back that sort of a sustained attack. on sunday morning, finally, the opposition says they saw the actions, the damage that foreign fighter jitds could cause, when at least eight according to an eyewitness missiles came down some 30 miles outside of ben z bengha benghazi. the debris strewn around for miles. everyone saying thank you to the international community. the air strikes have come a bit too late. they would have wanted to see it soother, they re happy they re taking place right now. because they do firmly believe if the air strikes had not hand,