up at a british air base. you ve dealt with many dubious characters yourself, not casting aspersions in your professional line of work. do you think there is any possibility that gadhafi will really leave? do you think he will actually step down? it doesn t seem to be in his character, but you ve dealt with hard characters before. can he be broken? can he be convinced to get on a plane and go to venezuela someplace? i think it s a possibility. he wants to live, he wants to survive, he probably wants to keep part of his fortune intact. he doesn t have too many options. i would say zimbabwe is a possibility, you mentioned mali, venezuela. very few countries want the guy, but i don t think he s somebody that wants to go down in flames. i don t believe that he wants to be carried out in a stretcher. you know, when it comes to real pressure to get out, my sense is that he would be acceptable to