and not keep mounting the anti-aircraft guns on top of them. fighting phase has to go beyond libya. they ve captured gadhafi and taken the city of sirte, the last holdout city and they need to use this to move on, otherwise there is a danger that the fighting will just continue. buttimistic about libya. they managed to do this. they have friends. they have experts, libyans living who can help a lot. i think they have some hope. thank you so much, richard eng engel. thanks for everything. the vice president joe biden responding today to the apparent death of moammar gadhafi in libya. nato got it right. nato got it right. and guess what, libya, gadhafi, one way or another is gone, whether he s alive or dead, he s gone. the people of libya have gotten
body. what are your sources telling you that you have heard on the ground, roger? caller: we re not going to know i think for a little while. what richard said in your last segment is important. clearly it is in everyone s interest that if the libyans killed khaddafy for symbolic reasons and for a whole host of reasons. bottom line is now that he s gone there is going to be a very quick effort by this international coalition to put the structure in place to allow the ntc to take the next step to govern it. that in some respects is going to be more difficult than the hunt for khaddafy was. general mccaffrey, you have seen the numbers, specific numbers through yesterday of the amount of flights that took place in all of this. the coordination that was taking place over the last three months was pretty smooth coordination.
not only for the government but the people of libya. ayman, thanks for coming on. i m joined now by republican senator chuck grassley of iowa. he is somebody that when he came to the senate khaddafy was already there power. senator, you hear reports today that khaddafy may be killed. what are you thinking? well, i am thinking that so many times we heard them on the news during the conflict in libya that he was going to stick it out and die a martyr. and it seems to me he got his wish and beyond that, i think it s probably good for the future of libya from this stand point. i think your previous person already mentioned this, but it s going to make national unity much easier there libya. senator, there was a lot of hand ringing on capital hill
by the rebels who captured himd and have taken him now to an undisclosed location. this is a different version of events that we heard from earlier thoods oday that khadda killed in a convoy viek or perhaps by nato. richard, you have been in this country for a very long time off and on over the last six months. you know some of the intricacies of unification that is going to have to take place. explain how hard this is going to be over the next six months assuming this death is confirmed and they are now trying to put together a key country. taking sirte would be a key factor. if you look at the geography of the country, almost all libyans live along the coast. sirte is right in the middle. until today it has been
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