of gadhafi s compound, the place he had been launching attacks against his own people and where he once swore on stated-controlled television to cleanse libya house by house of citizens that were disloyal. richard engel was the first to report from inside the compound. he walked viewers throughout the scene of the important victory of a revolution 42 years in the making. it was truly must-see tv. so if you were at work or out to lunch and you missed it, here s your chance to see history. lean forward. i am inside gadhafi s compound, this compound was designed as a last-stand facility. it was full of weapons, it was full of food, it was full of fuel, and some of that fuel, apparently was burning. we are seeing rebels storming in. they have just found the bodies of some foreign fighters. this area had been filled at one stage with mercenaries, most of them from saharan african countries. they are looting the complex,
he had been launching attacks against his own people and where he once swore on stated-controlled television to cleanse libya house by house of citizens that were disloyal. richard engel was the first to report from inside the compound. he walked viewers throughout the scene of the important victory of a revolution 42 years in the making. it was truly must-see tv. so if you were at work or out to lunch and you missed it, here s your chance to see history. lean forward. i am inside gadhafi s compound, this compound was designed as a last-stand facility. it was full of weapons, it was full of food, it was full of fuel, and some of that fuel, apparently was burning. we are seeing rebels storming in. they have just found the bodies of some foreign fighters. this area had been filled at one stage with mercenaries, most of them from saharan african countries.
rebels stormed and took control of gadhafi s compound, the place he had been launching attacks against his own people and where he once swore on stated-controlled television to cleanse libya house by house of citizens that were disloyal. richard engel was the first to report from inside the compound. he walked viewers throughout the scene of the important victory of a revolution 42 years in the making. it was truly must-see tv. so if you were at work or out to lunch and you missed it, here s your chance to see history. lean forward. i am inside gadhafi s compound, this compound was designed as a last-stand facility. it was full of weapons, it was full of food, it was full of fuel, and some of that fuel, apparently was burning. we are seeing rebels storming in. they have just found the bodies of some foreign fighters. this area had been filled at one stage with mercenaries, most of
will get much worse. he says he also promised to dispatch police to, quote, cleanse libya house by house of citizens who are not loyal. and he vowed to fight to the death saying, quote, i will fight under the last drop of blood. i will die as a martyr. now, gadhafi gave a speech in front of the bombed-out residence, which is really weird, but it turns out that that was, of course, damage done by a u.s. airstrike in the 1980s, and he s left it unrepaired as a symbol of libyan resistance, also marked by that massive statue of a fist crushing a plane. good luck with that. i don t think that s how it will work out. curiously he blamed america for currently fueling the protest. i find that completely strange, because i m wondering where are we on libya? to now we ve not said anything publicly. i m wondering why, he s worse
shepard: the rambling 90-minute long speech called for the supporters to take to the streets and fight back against the civil demonstrators and calls them drug addicts calling for appear end to his rule. the strong man railed against the united states in what he called lies in the western media. and he promised to cleanse libya house by house if the protester dozen not give up. witnesses who have now fled the country say muammar qadhafi has been bringing in hired foreign mercenaries to murder people in the middle of the night. today, he spoke alone at a podium in a building in triply and there was a large statute of a giant fist crushing a u.s. military plane. outside the compound the unrest is rampant. this amateur video from triply, but we cannot verify that, the government is denying all access to foreign media and cut internet service and many phone