problems. there are 140 tribes and clans in this country, 30 of which are porp. there are militias who are responsible for getting khaddafy. the only thing keeping them unified was getting khaddafy. now he s gone. at the same time, most countries are facing some kind of political challenge. libya is arguably the only one that has the means and the conditions to make it any time in the near future. only and a half million people and vast oil wells come peared with a place like egypt with 85 million people and very little resources. so libya has more going for it than any other place. robin wright, steve clemons, thank you both for coming in on short notice. up next, time magazine s bobbie gosha giving us his take. this is the dail daily rundowny
the idea that 1.7 million barrels of oil which were taken off line may ultimately come back online. that will make the price of oil go down. that ultimately is a good thing for companies and company earnings. and that s why you re seeing futures in part up this morning, chuck. andrew ross sorkin. we will be watching what that does to the markets and everything else. thank you, sir. daily rundown will be back in 30 seconds. back to the breaking news. moamar khaddafy, libya s long
impossible to drive between the two biggest cities in the country. sirte is in the middle and sirte was a scene of intense battles between some khaddafy loyalist and others. so physically now the country is much more united. that will increase transport. it will increase political unification. going forward, they will still need to have a period of national reck silluatioonciliat. until now libya has been led by a war council instead of a governing council. who kill ced khaddafy, if these latest reports are true and the libyans found khaddafy in an underground complex, pulled him out, killed him and have moved him to a secret location it would be a tremor ral boo tre
fled to neighboring algeria. aisha, who was pregnant, reportedly gave birth at the border. but two of gadhafi s other sons appear to still be in libya. and seem to be divided over what to do. on wednesday, gadhafi s son saadi told an arabic tv station he s willing to negotiate a surrender. if turning myself in would stop a bloodbath, i don t mind doing it, he said, without revealing his location. but in a separate call, another son, saif al islam, once heir apparent, says he and his father will fight on. the leader is good. we are in libya. we are fighting, he said. the fact he sent his wife and three of his children to algeria tells me now he appreciates that there is no return to the past. the gadhafi rule is over. the gadhafi dynasty is over. reporter: where could gadhafi be? he might be holed up in tripoli,
a city of two million. or in his hometown of sirte. another possibility, another gadhafi tribal stronghold. analysts suggest more likely, it s that gadhafi has fled to central or southern libya. it has pockets of loyalists and is difficult terrain. few roads, vast deserts, oasis, caves and canyons. the region is also closer to the borders of algeria, niger, chad and sudan, giving gadhafi more options to escape the country. rebels say if gadhafi is caught he will be executed by a firing squad. richard engel reporting. secretary of state hillary clinton says the u.s. will release more than $700 million of the more than $1.5 billion in unfrozen funds. thanks for joining us. i m veronica de la cruz. always good to see you.