he remained a leader in hiding and people here don't want to see what happened in baghdad where you have loyalists setting off car bombs, fighting an a similar etry call war. they want gadhafi to be killed definitively and not having him lead an underground revolt. >> what we are seeing behind you, and i think we are hearing prayers as well, could this likely go on for a while? >> reporter: it is something that can go on for a while, but once you have breached the wall, then you have to fight almost -- that's celebratory gunfire. people here are celebrating. you talk about the mosques, the mosques are encouraging people saying you are doing great. you have been doing wonderful. tell the people in the neighborhood to be strong. the moment has arrived. so that's the mosques playing a key role in giving encouragement and moral support, if you will. once you're inside the compound,