stockpiles of mustard gas and chlorine and rpgs and scud missiles and paid mercenaries in the southern part of the country, so we don t know how this ends yet. and, again, we could be seeing this mass, horrible genocide scene or at least mass murder of his own citizens that we tried to prevent by doing the no-fly zone in the first place which was by, by the way, i was lukewarm on the strategy we took. i mean, that is over now, but i think with with very, very hard sanctions, we might have gotten to the same place. and we re setting a lesson for the middle east. i think it s not just when a country asks us in, it s whether the country threatens our strategic interests and a number of countries do, libya did not. let me broaden out quickly. syria obviously last week the president called for bashar al assad to step down. what does this mean? i ve been asking everyone that we ve been talking to libya about, what does this mean for
there s last week they fired two scud missiles out of the area and a large military prengs there so there could still be quite a battle there. there are still battles and fights ongoing within the capital. a number of journalists, almost three dozen, are basically being held inside one of tripoli s hotels surrounded by a number of loyalists that are using that kind of as their last holdout and using these journalists as human shields. stephanie gosk, thank you so much. she talked about the symbolic importance of this and over the last six months as fighting s gone on we ve seen this video of gadhafi going around in his golf cart and that s where he made pronouncements from. so where is he? i think he s just smart enough to know that s the first play they would look. i think his instinct is to head south.
battle to the compound of moammar gadhafi, pushing inside and knocking over statues of the long-time libyan leader. making off with weapons but finding no sign of him or his family. the reuters news agency reports that gadhafi has been heard on a local radio station. now according to reuters in his radio address gadhafi says his withdrawal from the compound was a tactical move. his location is still not known as we ve said. meantime, pockets of fighting remain, including at tripoli s airport. that s where cnn s arwa damon has been reporting. rebels took over the airport monday but it is still a target for loyalist troops. and international journalists are trapped in the rixos hotel in the libyan capital. the journalists including our own matthew chance, remain virtual prisoners being held by troops loyal to gadhafi. cnn s sara sidner was right in the middle of all the the chaos at that gadhafi compound. rebels invited her in as they swept through the complex. the late
we have seen it. we knew it was there. we never got to a place we incinerated, path it was on to incinerate all of it to get rid of it. unfortunately, tons of it still exist. we think there are elements of the gas he produced. he has shalter-fired missiles, that worry us greatly. the number could be classified but there is a punch of them. those falling in the wrong hands, we do know that al-qaeda is trying to take advantage of the chaos would be a disaster. bret: a scud fired today, one fired a few days ago no one was injured. is this situation dangerous because it s dog backed up against the wall and mike do something with the weapons he has? it could make that decisio decision. a concern we are worried about but the biggest concern is it gets legs and walks off to
medical supplies to take back into cities across the country. they had to pick up insulin for people suffering with diabetes. they re here to pick up heart medicine but with the steady flowing coming in and going straight back as soon as they have. we re hearing that there s still fighting going on in the compound which has been the headquarters of qaddafi, still believe the fighting is going on with tank fire and the small arms fire we re hearing as well. we re hearing also that government forces have started firing three scud style missiles. nato says it will continue its bombing campaign until full security is restored. back to you guys. one of the many things that tunisia is needs is a corporal link. because clearly, single file is not doing it. the infrastructure needs to be improved clearly. we need to go over that. what s the plan going forward? the president of the united states led us into this and immediately handed it off, ok,