in colloquial english into america that are inspiring home grown terrorists here. so yemen threatens us directly. syria s a back door from iran to lebanon and then to israel, and it harbors two very, very toxic terror groups, hamas and hezbollah. you can t say those things about libya. so my point is this is a zero sum game. we have limited resources in terms of people, in terms of money. everyone gets that. and limited brain cells. and we really have to focus on the top targets for us. when you look back on what we did in libya and how this has flayed out played out, my view is we might have been able to do this with very strong, coercive sanctions which, in the end, i think might have been a better precedent to tons who are countries who are not a direct threat to our strategic interests. now we want nato assets on the case in our country, and that may not be available. jenna: congresswoman, you give
rick. rick: thanks jenna. a fox news alert, with our other big story this thursday, an unconfirmed report out of libya that rebels have surrounded qaddafi s compound, a building right in his compound. steve harrigan is streaming live from tripoli with the very latest. steve. reporter: rick, conflicting reports on possible locations for colonel qaddafi, rebel fighters in the streets saying they have him holed up in an apartment building, along with his sons, near the qaddafi compound, a spokesman saying it s not true, he s fine, safe and healthy. we ve seen real credibility gaps throughout both sides on this conflict so we re going to have to wait on that one. meantime british defense minister saying nato is lending assets to the rebels as far as reconnaissance, intelligence, trying to help in tracking colonel qaddafi, also the bounty on qaddafi s head, put up ilibyan businessman, has now gone over $2 million, as that hunt for qaddafi continues in the streets of tripoli.
that hit on tuesday. but we re feeling some. and anytime you have industrial damage, especially something as tall as the washington monument, they re concerned about how much more damage could be done in all of these aftershocks. so far a number of them remarkably low. scientists saying today, though, we could feel them for weeks and months to come. jenna: jerry s asking hurricanes, earthquakes, what s next? we feel for you, jerry, we feel the same way. more on all these stories as we get them. thanks, harris. reporter: sure. you got to destroy all countries, and now we can build our country. now he is is big rat in africa. rick: celebrations in the capital city of libya, and we are now hearing reports that libyan rebels have got gadhafi surrounded in tripoli as fighting ranges on. rages on. we re also hearing gadhafi is urging forces to fight and destroy the rebels.
at the international criminal court or whether it takes place as some, including a former u.s. state department official, believe, in libya itself. listen. reporter: the rebels, rightly, want do deal with him themselves and a key thing is not just to try him but to put the whole process by which he came to power illegitimately, constructed a fake republic, and has been ruling an unaccountable manner for the last four decades. that is more appropriate, in other words, put the whole system that enables muammar qaddafi on trial. jonathan: but first they have to find muammar qaddafi, and some experts i spoke to today say they simply do not believe he will go peacefully, he will die trying to fight the rebels. shepard: what next for his sons? jonathan: it seems more likely the sons might be handed over to the international criminal court. the council said previously it would want to see all of his stevensons tried, in particular
reagan bombed in the 80s in response to some of his terrorist acts. it it s the very same compound that was bombed killing his adopted daughter. chris? it thank you so much, milissa. now, the series of dramatic developments has been unfolding the last several hours. we heard a few hours ago from the president who said he would not be releasing any further statement until he actually got confirmation of what was happening there. well, within the last hour we did get that statement from the president who said clearly that libya has reached a tipping point and that country is slipping from the grasp of a tyrant. let s go to p.j. crowley, a former white house spokesman and how confident must the white house be about what is going on in that country to have issued that statement. well, i think it s clear the end is near. it may still take time to unfold. we don t know where gadhafi is at this point from all