there are t that gaddafi and >>> libyan dictator moammar ghadafi's grip on power may be ending.t is what officials in washington believe. there are reports gahdafi and his two sons may have left the country. this as rebel troops advance toward the capital city of tripoli. alex crawford was there. >> reporter: this was a battle they couldn't afford to lose. and they brought everything out to try to finish the job. street by street, inch by inch, they pushed forward. and forced gahdafi's men into the street. with gahdafi troops in martyr square, their advance stuttered. they couldn't see their enemy, so they had to give the bait, even if it was themselves. knowing gahdafi's gunmen were at the end of the road. >> they have lit a fire to try to create a smokescreen so the snipers don't know what to shoot at. and now they are trying to finish the job off to move into the square. >> reporter: once inside the square, they have to hold it. and hold it they did. the gahdafi men were out numbered and outmaneuvered, and the wounded were abandoned as they fled they have waited since march f

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libya's moammar ghadafi's days have limited.new york times and co-authors of "counter strike," the secret campaign against al qaeda. let's get to the news, should we besaying we're taking you to the hague, your life is going to be miserable. >> the u.s. government has been secretly working behind the scenes for months to get ghadafi out of there. >> why don't we go to sandals there and live there quietly? why would he leave? >> try to get him out of there. rebels are circling tripoli. >> why do we treat these guys like hitler, why don't we cut a deal with them? for him to go somewhere else. exactly right. >> would we go along with that? >> at this point to ensure an end to the conflict, people with an end to the conflict. >> let's go to al qaeda, we shouldn't worry so much about a big, incredible, perfect storm like 9/11 and more about something more one guy or person, how do you see that in terms of al qaeda? >> right now their capability is diminished in pakistan with bin laden's death, but just because he's dead, the other af