circulation is if this conflict drag on, both sides could bring in more weapons like this from outside libya. whenever this ends, those weapons could be sold off. brian todd, cnn, washington. with the fighting in libya intensifying, talk of a civil war is growing. let s bring back our senior state department producer elias labbatt. how well armed are the rebels? and what would that mean for colonel gadhafi? as we heard from brian s piece just now, the rebels do have some sophisticated weaponry, a lot of the opposition, as we spoke a few minutes ago, are former military officials that have brought some weapons as they defected. they have these shoulder missiles. they have these anti-fire missiles. and the concern is right now that this could dampen the will in a little bit of the international community to intervene. because if this opposition is armed, if there s a prolonged struggle, then we re talking about a civil war. and so if these people are armed and are fighting gadhafi, i