owe. people had been armed to the teeth, and they were attacking these convoys of rebels going through their towns, 360 degrees. so much so that the rebels then pulled back. first they pulled back to a town about 60 or 70 miles east of sirte. now we understand, information is that they re back on the edge of raslanoof, the oil and gas station, took that two days ago, back 50 or 6 0 miles from where they hit that wall of fire yesterday. obviously, thomas, they want to take sirte. sirte for a lot of symbolic and strategic reasons. but what s happened, what s changed is that the first couple of days of that push, where they made, you know they were going probably two or three hundred miles in about two days, they met no resistance at all, because nato war planes had taken out gadhafi s troops, tanks and artillery. and it was a cake walk for them. now they are in gadhafi territory. even 50, 60, 70 miles to the east of sirte, that is all controlled by gadhafi. the overwhelming m