wrote long essays about his philosophy. after being known as a noisy trouble 7 maker in the 1980s he became a major thorn in washington s side. the reagan white house behind terrorist acts around the world, in 1986, the bombing of the nightclub provoked a military response from the u.s. april april 5th in west berlin, a terrorist bomb exploded in a nightclub frequented by american servicemen. sergeant kenneth ford and a young turkish woman were killed and 230 others were wounded. among them, some 50 american military personnel. this monstrous brutality is but the latest act in colonel gadhafi s reign of terror. much to the president s disappointment he survived that attack and then libya pulled off one of the most dare ago terrorist attacks blowing up a jumbo jet over lockerbie in scotland in 1988.
as security forces try to quiet the streets, libya has banned journalists in the region. but information and video is leaking out from social media sites. these shots from tripoli were uploaded today on youtube, scenes of chaos in the streets, people setting fires. cnn can confirm the uprising in benghazi. although cnn doesn t confirm post, we cannot moammar gadhafi has spoken since these protests erupted and did appear on state run tv but we don t know when this was taped. a few hours ago, his son hit the air waves to defend his father s government. he accused outside forces with interfering with libya s affairs. i want you to play a part of that and take a listen. translator: many people living abroad have decided to use this to start a campaign in order for the country to reach the state that happened in tunisia and egypt. this is all over the internet and facebook and media campaigns. so the government here and the security apparatus were aware of all this, so they