mr. turbi, now that the list of governments recognizing the national transitional council is more than 30 countries long, maybe it's time ask whether this is symbolic diplomacy or whether it really strengthens the hands of the council. >> the u.k.'s recognition of the transitional national council is a definite and a clear signal to the cynical regime in tripoli that the world-- the u.k., the important powers of the world-- no longer recognize the libyan regime as legitimate and releasing $150 million to the transitional national council is a very good thing. as a matter of fact, from what i know, there's at least $3 billion in safes in qaddafi's name in london, $900 million of which were transferred to the u.k. on february 22 and that may come as a surprise to your audience that there's not only $34 billion of libyan assets in the united states, there's north of $120 billion, according to a reliable source in the united states government. >> suarez: so, mr. turbi, this clears the way, this rec