then you can't confiscate it. >> once again, ivan watson in tripoli with libya's finance minister.other headlines impacting the region this past week. dubai's leader has appointed a new governor for the dubai international financial center. the emirates banking has taken over the reins right away. >>> egypt this week successfully got back into the international bond market for the first time since the revolution earlier this year. egypts ministry of finance raised over half a billion dollars by selling two-year notes. the coupon rate was 112.1%. for more about the program visit our website, cnn.com/mme or send your e-mail to us. check out arabic.cnn.com/mme. that's it for this edition of cnn "marketplace middle east." i'm john defterios. thanks for watching. we'll see you next week.

>> yes. >> ivan watson with us live from the libyan capital. ivan, fascinating reporting there. what was the answer when the united states delegation, as i'm told, he has to go. it's nonnegotiable. he has to go soon. i assume the libyans want to drag this out. >> reporter: well, in that conversation, gadhafi government spokesman said that the libyan side took his time to try to explain their position to deny many of the accusations against gadhafi and the security services claim that they were human rights abuses. so we're hearing two completely different versions here. i didn't hear anything at all about a message being delivered that gadhafi had to step down and that the regime here in tripoli has been vehement about this that if that is going to be a precondition from the u.s. and its allies and nato before negotiations can take place. but this was a three-hour meeting, john, according to the state department. officials have spoken to us. and if they were just giving one clear blunt message, gadhafi had to step down, clearly a bit more than that was discussed at that meeting.

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desserters from the army told cnn's ivan watson how far account government is willing to go to crushto warn you, some of these pictures are really hard to watch. >> syrian troops and tanks, squaring off against anti-government demonstrators, snapshots of a bloody government crackdown that's gone on for months. now a man who says he's a dee earther from the syrian army claims in an interview from cnn he was given orders to shoot unarmed protesters. >> translator: there were protests and chanting. suddenly our officer gave us the order to shoot at the people. it didn't matter how many would be killed. the important thing was for the protest to be dispersed and we started shooting. >> he asked his fies not to be shown because of reprisals against his family. opposition groups accuse the syrian regime of killing more than 1,300 syrians over the last three months. this 21-year-old says he worked in an ice cream factory until he was conscripted into the syrian army last december. he was assigned to be a sniper. he said he was pretty good. >> you could hit a target at those two white towers

the spokesman talking to cnn's ivan watson. here's his take. >> is this the first step. >> this is a first step. we welcome any further steps. we are prepared to talk more and explain what is happening in libya and take the matter forward. we don't want to be stuck in the past. >> the gadhafi spokesperson also told cnn that libyan troops will turn the oil city of bragga into hell rather than thlet it fall into hands of rebel forces. >>> the crews of the space station and "atlantis" had a ceremony yesterday to say good-b good-bye. the hatch was closed. at 2:28 eastern time, "atlantis" undocked from the international space station for the final time. "atlantis" is scheduled to touch down in florida at 5:56 a.m. eastern time on thursday, two days from now. early tomorrow morning the crew of the space shuttle "atlantis" will join us from up there live on "american morning" tomorrow morning at 5:00 a.m. eastern. >> also new this morning, the fbi is teaming up with spanish authorities to take down the biggest international drug ring

cnn's ivan watson was the first to report this development. he's joining us from the libyan capital of triboli. what happened here? tell our viewers what we know. >> well, this was a secret meeting that took place on saturday in tunisia, involving high-ranking u.s. government officials and representatives of mommar gadhafi's internationally isolated regime. and we were finally able to confirm that this meeting, this secret meeting took place when we spoke with gadhafi's government spokesman just a few hours ago. take a listen to this exclusive video. >> is this the first step? >> this is the first step. we welcome any further steps and we are prepared to go back to libya and go forward. we don't want to be stuck in the past. we are people that want to go forward all the time. if i may, it's not the time now to name people, but, you know, it's a first step dialogue. >> but it was direct face to face in tunisia on saturday? >> yes. okay? >> thank you. state department officials have told us that officials were libyan ambassador to libya, recalle