from jail, including the main leader of that group. and nowadays it s looking like some of those that were released are going back into using violence against the government, especially, as i said in the eastern part. yeah, khalil, on that issue, all the eastern province of libya, the fact there was an uprising there, always been rest in the part of the country, no great surprises, the fact it spread to the capital of tripoli and not really seen moammar gadhafi apart from what may have been a prerecorded appearance on state run television, how significant is that? it is very significant if it is to the same magnitude as it is being reported out of tripoli. and there is some part it is much stronger and much fiercer revolt that is taking place. colonel gadhafi, according to my understanding, i just spoke to tripoli a couple hours ago to some friends who are very close to him. he is still in tripoli and he is fighting the whole thing.
through he began to talk about the need to come around the table and spoke of the country being at a national crossroads. it was a crisis and said the country needed to be reformed in the next 48 hours. he did speak of injecting money into the system. he did talk about restructuring the municipality, but essentially what he s saying is the structure remains in place from the ground up, these various revolutionary committees going all the way to the leadership. no mention at all about his father s position except to say that his father would fight to the end, therefore, what i am seeing and reading from here in cairo is that essentially the structure remains the same. will it answer the questions of the people who have been out demonstrating, those who will negotiate with them, who are they? they ll have to be members of the revolutionary committee because as we saw in benghazi, libya s second largest city, tens of thousands of people took to the street, these are the people that he was
attack and then blew up a jumbo jet over lockerbie in scotland in 1988. appeared gadhafi s place as public enemy number one was secure for eternity but it proved to be a short time before the century was out. gadhafi gave up the two suspects behind the bombing of pan am 103. in 2003, they agreed to compensate the victims and taken off as a country of weapons of mass destruction. and it was just 20 years after president reagan tried to kill gadhafi. he was one of the most hated and reviolated men of america. he is a survivor, around 44 years. gadhafi overthrew a family when he took over in 1969.
translator: moammar gadhafi our leader is leading the battle in tripoli. we re with him, the army is with hem. there are tens of thousands coming, flooding to tripoli. we will never give up libya. we will fight to the last inch, to the last shot, we will never leave our country. we re in special coverage tonight of the uprising in libya. right now, we re joined by a libyan american who s been living in this country 30 years now. ali, i just want to ask, first of all, you have family and friends back in libya. have you managed to reach them. have you spoken to them? yes. what are they telling you about this situation and which
protests, even after saif gadhafi spoke today, are you going to continue the protests? caller: yeah, there were. and they were all angry and they didn t believe in him. what s going on is kind of bloody because a lot of african troops are here now. they are killing people everywhere. there are talks about 30,000 ones comes here. are you saying there are 30,000 protesters in tripoli or 30,000 soldiers in tripoli? caller: 30,000 african soldiers in tripoli now. so 30,000 soldiers from outside the country? yeah, they re loyal to the regime of gadhafi. sorry? and they are loyal to the regime and they are firing on the protesters? yeah, they are paid by the regime. what are you doing to protect yourself? are you setting up some sort of