obviously this is a very serious situation. some peopll s lives are in danger. for me, i m safe in my house, i m sitting here watching this. i m like wow, i m never going to see this again my life. i was talking to people on the phone. i m sitting here indian style because i m up on this hill next door in my dining room, and that s when i heard the explosion. i have never heard something so loud. my house shook. my poor dog. they are just looking at me like what s going on? that s when it sounded like a war zone. you know? you know, you mentioned the robot. it was our standing we hadn t reported it yet because it was an active scene. it clearly isn t anymore. they have a robot which they can communicate inside the building, right? oh, okay. well, there has been three different robots. there was one that i have seen on a lot of the military shows. it looked like i think it was a bomb robot for, you know, to check if there is bombs. but there has been three. i live up at the top of
smith. the second wave, seven hours later doesn t matter. we know that once the attack starts, we know that we ve got a very short period of time for the on the ground 0, cia people to have some type of counterassault effort to try to hold off until the military shows, and we know again the libyans aren t providing support. so at that point immediately you have to try. but we had the f-16s and could have gotten 0 to benghazi long before the second wave, if not the first wave. yeah. all they needed was the order to go, and they weren t given it. they kept asking for it. let s go to an ac-130. what its that? ac-130 is a c-130 with a 105-millimeter canyon, a good gn x and we had agencies on the group that could have called it.
later doesn t matter. we know that once the attack starts, we know that we ve got a very short period of time for the on the ground 0, cia people to have some type of counterassault effort to try to hold off until the military shows, and we know again the libyans aren t providing support. so at that point immediately you have to try. but we had the f-16s and could have gotten 0 to benghazi long before the second wave, if not the first wave. yeah. all they needed was the order to go, and they weren t given it. they kept asking for it. let s go to an ac-130. what its that? ac-130 is a c-130 with a 105-millimeter canyon, a good gn x and we had agencies on the group that could have called it. i. that s is what woods kept calling for.
later doesn t matter. we know that once the attack starts, we know that we ve got a very short period of time for the on the ground 0, cia people to have some type of counterassault effort to try to hold off until the military shows, and we know again the libyans aren t providing support. so at that point immediately you have to try. but we had the f-16s and could have gotten 0 to benghazi long before the second wave, if not the first wave. yeah. all they needed was the order to go, and they weren t given it. they kept asking for it. let s go to an ac-130. what its that? ac-130 is a c-130 with a 105-millimeter canyon, a good gn x and we had agencies on the group that could have called it. i. that s is what woods kept calling for. yes, we had two of our guys
day before for reporters and for people on the ground in terms of if you were an anti-mubarak protester. as i said, the military showed up in areas they haven t been in in greater numbers. that allowed journalists to go out, shoot stories they hadn t been able to shoot over the last 48 hours without being attacked by thugs. the fact that i m standing now outside with lights on a balcony, though i can t say where it is, is an indication that i m pretty confident no one s going to try to, you know, shoot me in the back as i m talking to you which is a different scenario than on other nights. so some areas become safe when the military shows up and then the military leaves and then things become more precarious. we re all thinking of you, looking forward to your safe return back to new york city. given the kind of danger anderson and many journalists are facing, few reporters in cairo ventured out of their