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Possibility of a force from benghazi reaching tripoli some 600 miles away, you ve been out there and seen them in the field. how likely is that? reporter: it s unlikely, although it s not all together impossible. first of all, as you mentioned, it s a very long way from this place. from the east to the west. and second of all, logistically, they re just not that well enough organized to push that far ahead. even for the united states army, to move 1,000 kilometers is a huge logistical feat. for the libyan irregulars that we have here, that would be almost harder. you do have a lot of enthusiasm. you do have the desire to do it. but what we re seeing is that the effort for instance to defend brega was very much a case of people hearing on their cell phones, on the radio, ....
Mentioned, including the former justice minister, he s been somebody who is very well respected for a while in libya. ben, in terms of the possibility of a force from benghazi reaching tripoli some 600 miles away, you ve been out there and seen them in the field. how likely is that? reporter: it s unlikely, although it s not all together impossible. first of all, as you mentioned, it s a very long way from this place. from the east to the west. and second of all, logistically, they re just not that well enough organized to push that far ahead. even for the united states army, to move 1,000 kilometers is a huge logistical feat. for the libyan irregulars that we have here, that would be almost harder. you do have a lot of enthusiasm. you do have the desire to do it. ....
Cairo, and i covered local politics for a newspaper here. and i was covering an election. i ll give you an example of how they can use these goon squads and how i ve seen them detract them. many are members of mubarak s political party. i was covering a local election and i went out and these are people who get paid in food, get paid in a small amount of money to stuff the ballots in ballot boxes. they get paid to scare other candidates. they are hired muscle. everyone in egypt knows how the government has used them for a very long time. and the demonstrators believe firmly, and even nondemonstrators believe that these irregulars that the army has used to carry out unpleasant missions, the people sent in an orchestrated way to create chaos this morning. but it must be said, they just appear to have been driven away. they may come back. most of the protesters suspect they will come back. ....
Have to provoke international repercussions by sending in uniformed soldiers and tanks, instead sent in 10,000 to 15,000 irregulars. the same time mubarak has used in the past, and i ve seen this done before, to stuff ballot boxes and intimidate candidates, to keep fighting to keep mubarak in office. let s talk about the political makeup of the crowd. has there been any signal sent from the organizers of the protest to their political makeup? reporter: i ve met with a lot of protest leaders. this i do involved the muslim brotherhood. no doubt the more violent it gets, the more influence you ll see from groups like the muslim brotherhood, not necessarily the students and the activists who are the intellectuals and the elite who are initially organizing this, but it is largely been until now a second quarter hear movement. i can t guarantee it will stay that way, especially if there are a lot of people killed tonight. people could reach down into ....
I ll give you an example of how they can use these goon squads and how i ve seen them detract them. many are members of mubarak s political party. i was covering a local election and i went out and these are people who get paid in food, get paid in a small amount of money to stuff the ballots in ballot boxes. they get paid to scare other candidates. they are hired muscle. everyone in egypt knows how the government has used them for a very long time. and the demonstrators believe firmly, and even nondemonstrators believe that these irregulars that the army has used to carry out unpleasant missions, the people sent in an orchestrated way to create chaos this morning. but it must be said, they just appear to have been driven away. they may come back. most of the protesters suspect they will come back. tonight at the very least, as you can hear, to a degree the protesters pounding on their shields. ....