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now, you re saying? history s open ended here, what you have, in fact, the president doesn t bear this burden alone. there are two men, there are two powerful men, sarkozy and david cameron, who have pledged themselves to the removal of moammar gadhafi. think of france, it s a great power, it s a mediterranean power. you can draw a line from marseilles to tripoli. nato has become the air force of the opposition to gadhafi. that s what nato will be doing. we talk about, there is a nato a u.n. charter, u.n. limits on what we can do. this opposition has an air force to back it. you can see the course of battle is coming closer to tripoli, and you will have to see what happens to these dictators. we will test whether he s loved in serte. this is his hometown. is he really loved there? is he loved in tripoli?
we couldn t get to the area where the opposition was, the government wouldn t let us get there, we had no idea the conditions that, what we did see, tanks under trees, hiding, we heard the opposition say they ve been attacked by tanks. heavy artillery you may see on a battlefield maybe. indiscriminate type of weapon to use in an urban area. there s been a lot of excitement for the opposition forces and those who support them. we saw opposition forces retake the city of ashdabiya where you are tonight. they got close to serte, but you say their momentum has stopped. what happened? it most certainly seems to have, anderson. they got to the small town you mentioned earlier, it s about 60
battle for the future of libya. later on the program we ll have an update on that woman dragged off by security forces. we heard from her family, we ll talk to correspondents who were there. earlier tonight i spoke with a spokesman in that town of misrata. how close is is the fighting? i m seeing video of what looks like opposition forces with ak-47s in their hands, light weapons running around on the streets. how close do you get to gadhafi forces? i mean, is it house to house? street by street? sometimes you get so close, it s just a few meters away. other times, when there s a hostage situation involved, it becomes difficult to approach anyone. we are using multiple tactics at the moment. the way we tackle, by storming buildings, and just, you know,
opportunity to recalibrate. but what s he going to do in that recalibration? decide he can push a little harder? take misrata? is he going to allow people in the government to use this breathing space for diplomacy. people in and around the government here recognize the need for change in the country, but it s probably not going to fall to them to make those key decisions. it s going to come back to moammar gadhafi. that s quite an unpredictable thing to say on this. at the first sign of resistance today that these opposition forces encountered, going through ashdabiya, through some of these other towns, they ve gone through. it seems like they didn t have anybody to fight, because the gadhafi forces had been retreating. now they re facing some opposition, and at the first sign, they basically fall back.