the lies were astounding. the libyan league for human rights tells us maybe 6,000 people have been killed in libya. perhaps 3,000 in tripoli alone. so there is a blood bath in the country and this man tells shameless lies. however, we fell for this arguments about al qaeda. everything is al qaeda. so you have the libyan regime and its henchmen going out and telling us they are fighting on behalf of us all. gadhafi says, and this spokesman repeats the argument, that libya is the safety valve of the mediterranean. they are fighting the fight on our behalf. it s our own gullibility and we opened the door for this kind of presentation. ben, you heard the government spokesman. based on what you ve seen for days, what stood out to you? reporter: well, just sort of the alice in wonderland aspect of it.
please. i invite in the name of my government every fact-finding mission possible in the world. all ngos, governments can come and check that there are no massacres, no bombardment of civilians and the case in libya is the case of an armed rebellion against a united country. mr. ibrahim, i hope you think we were fair to you. we asked you hard question, you answered them. we leave it up to our viewers to decide. appreciate your time, thank you. reaction to what you just heard after the break. also ahead, air attacks in brega are fueling calls for the u.s. and allies to intervene. how should they respond? should they respond at all? plus, he escaped from tripoli with you says his brother was killed. tonight, a man talking to us about what he says the regime in tripoli is doing. we ll be right back. you re smiling. and when they re laughing.
possibility, she seemed to be saying, that there are groups that might be trying to play certain people off. maybe even play off the united states. and you know, in terms of any type of contact, even with the government in tripoli, there s been very little. the last time that the secretary had any contact was last week with the foreign minister. but suns then, there s been very, very little contact. fouad, the spokesman sent saying i was being sensationalists and harping on these pills, but every speech gadhafi says his son makes this claim, as well, but it defies logic that there s this vast drug distribution keeping libya s youth high so they can fight. i m not sure why being high makes you be able to fight better. but if they re lying about that, if they re making that up, it seems like why should you believe much of what they say? exactly. when you listen to this lie, a lie has to be repeated, because that s the lie of the leader.
but the story is much, much bigger. what we think, anderson, is that international community s reaction towards what s happening in libya has not been very honest and transparent. the security council, for example, anderson, based its agreement against libya on reports without anderson, you have to look at this very carefully, without any fact finding mission, without visiting libya, without allowing libya to defend itself in the u.n., and the guy who is supposed to be the lawyer of libya was going against his own country. they ve defected. they ve left your side. sir, the reason i bring up the hallucinatory pills is because i think internationally the reason i bring up the pills is because i think internationally when people hear that and we
in libya. a man who escaped tripoli after his own brother was killed on sunday for protesting and talking to the media. you can imagine the courage it now takes for him to speak out about what s happening but he says it s important for people to hear the facts. we re not using his name or saying where he is now for his protection. listen. on sunday morning, i received a call around 10:00 from my brother saying to me, look, they have got me. please escape, please escape. and i knew that the security forces, they have they have got him. and i try to escape because i was ready to escape. i took my small family and i took taxi and had him drive me to the border. what happened to your brother? my brother, at that time i knew he had been caught but i don t know where he is. he told me this call, and that s