. >> in libya, a message apparently delivered by one of colonel gaddafi's sons, saif al- islam, has been brought -- broadcast on television this evening. he insists that his father is alive and well. there are reports that another of the suns is saying he is going to negotiate with anti- gaddafi forces. he has been in touch with an opposition commander to end the bloodshed. there is still no sign of the fabled the government been formed in the capital of tripoli. >> the war has swept the tripoli and back out into the desert, taking the colonel with it. in this fragile capital, gunfire is for celebration, not killing. paris -- paris for the end of the holy month of ramadan. just after dawn, the former square was full of people and memories of almost 42 years of dictatorship. they killed their children and raped are women, he is a murderer, and god will punish them. suburban roads still have barricades put up by their residents to keep the violence of colonel gaddafi away from them. the war had already touched into the street on the 19th of june, a nato mistake killed a family here. the ch

now saif said go ahead and attack now.ne's bet with when the ntc will actually lead the advance on these towns. >> you're in direct correspondents with another one of gadhafi's sons online through e-mails. he seemed to go back on something he told you earlier before which is that he's no longer willing to negotiate with opposition forces. why do you think there's that change? >> reporter: i think what's happening here is -- i think what he said on television was consistent with what i was hearing in e-mails. the way that the national transitional council had tried to play what he was saying by saying he was trying to negotiate a surrender. what he said he's willing to do is to negotiate with and talk to national transitional council military commanders. he's not willing to surrender but willing to talk to them about a cease-fire. i mean, what i take away from all this from his sons speaking at the same time, their first public broadcast with a completely divergent message, he saudi is loyal to his father and various times

now saif said go ahead and attack now. with when the ntc will actually lead the advance on these towns. >> you're in direct correspondents with another one of gadhafi's sons online through e-mails. he seemed to go back on something he told you earlier before which is that he's no longer willing to negotiate with opposition forces. why do you think there's that change? >> reporter: i think what's happening here is -- i think what he said on television was consistent with what i was hearing in e-mails. the way that the national transitional council had tried to play what he was saying by saying he was trying to negotiate a surrender. what he said he's willing to do is to negotiate with and talk to national transitional council military commanders. he's not willing to surrender but willing to talk to them about a cease-fire. i mean, what i take away from all this from his sons speaking at the same time, their first public broadcast with a completely divergent message, he saudi is loyal to his father and various times told to

how many of you think saif is in bani walid? that would explain the qaddafi forces' fierce counterattack says the unit commander asim elghospy, blood from his wounded men still on his face. but today you got further in than ever before. >> yeah. yeah. >> reporter: today was a day you had the biggest advance. >> yes. >> reporter: but now you're pulling back. >> yes, pulling back, to put a new plan. >> reporter: but by late afternoon, a full-scale retreat was under way. the rebels planning to regroup and brace themselves for a replay in the morning. there's no question the rebels are brave and they're motivated, but they were... really suffered today from the same problems that have plagued them from the very beginning: that is poor weapons and even worse leadership on the battlefield. >> pelley: liz, i wonder, when was the last time we heard from qaddafi and what's the betting on where he is? >> reporter: well, last time he appeared in public was back in june. he was said to be in tripoli in august. he's since disappeared. people

saif al adel is on the list, of the most wanted terrorists. he is said to have trained the extremists from around the world in afghanistan. and they are now believed back in their native countries leading al qaeda's local branches. >> translator: safe -- saif al adel gave recruits military training. he's like a mentor for regional al qaeda leaders in countries like yemen, morocco and somalia. >> reporter: he said that al qaeda may commit even more acts of terrorism if its local organizations gets stronger and the leaders of the operations have military capabilities. >> translator: arabs used to lead al qaeda, but now, the network has leaders around the world. the network must be planning even more serious attacks than the ones ten years ago. >> reporter: ten years since 9/11, al qaeda has lost its charismatic leader, but with new leaders it's still a potential threat worldwide. go sawatha, nhk world, sanaa. >>> next in 9/11, defining a decade, a report about an artist making a sculpture out of steel from the twin tours' wreckage. >>> time to c

and the truth is, it sounds kind of delusional what saif is saying. that they must be in a bunker somewhere and either not understand the reality or they're just whistling in the wind. >> reporter: they're whistling in the wind. they're whistling at whoever they think is still their loyalists. they are living in their own sort of deluded situation, certainly not living as anyone can see he's not living in a suburb of tripoli. he would have been picked up by now. what he's trying to do is just rally anyone else that's willing to fight for the gadhafi regime, perhaps give them cover and time to get out of the country. particularly the key towns in the south right now. sirte that rebels have surrounded, given them a deadline until saturday to put their weapons down and another city 30 miles southeast of tripoli it's believed quite possibly that's where gadhafi could be or other members of his family could be. that town surrounded by the rebels, holding out, also on a deadline to put down his weapons until the weekend. so perhaps it's a rallying call to a

saif al adel is on the list of the most wanted terrorists. he is said to have trained extremists from around the world in afghanistan and they are now believed back in their native countries, leading al qaeda's local branches. >> translator: saif al adel is like a mentor in countries like yemen, morocco and somalia. >> reporter: al bahri says he will commit acts of terrorism if his local organization gets stronger and the leaders with the operation have military capabilities. >> translator: arabs used to lead al qaeda, but now the network has leaders around the world. the network must be planning even more serious attacks than the ones ten years ago. >> reporter: ten years since 9/11, al qaeda has lost its charismatic leader but with new leaders it's still a potential threat worldwide. go sawahata, nhk world. >>> next in "9/11 defining a decade" a report about an artist making a sculpture out of steel from the twin towers wreckage. >> reporter: the march 11th disaster, the september 11th attacks. two anniversaries, one source for in-depth cov

. >> reporter: i asked him specifically where his father was, his braernlg, saif was. i asked him where he was. he said he had been outside bani walid. he told me he was relatively safe but in a dangerous situation. he told me then he's been negotiating with national transitional council, rebel military commanders. they've also confirmed it. he's been negotiating to try and get a cease-fire for the town of bani walid. however, he said, on thursday, when his brother saif gadhafi dave gave what he described as a very aggressive speech on television, urging his supporters to keep fighting, saadi gadhafi told me at that point the national transition council, the rebels essentially said the cease-fire talks are off, if your brother's going to talk like that and right now according to saadi gadhafi, he believes there's no point in negotiations, that the national transition council is amassing troops to move into bani walid. he did, however, say, and this is very significant, he clearly has differences with his father and his brother saif al islam. there's clearly divisions e

he said he clearly has differences with his father and brother saif al islam.e said he's neutral, is neither in the rebel camp nor his father's camp and is trying to negotiate a cease-fire. the divisions are significant. until now gadhafi's family have been the power brokers, the main people that have run the country. they have always stuck together. now the cohesion is falling apart. >> our thanks to nic robertson for that exclusive report speaking to moammar gadhafi's son. >>> president obama tours the devastation in new jersey caused by the remnants of hurricane irene. the report right after the break. stay close. ether it can be doney and responsibly. at exxonmobil we know the answer is yes. when we design any well, the groundwater's protected by multiple layers of steel and cement. most wells are over a mile and a half deep so there's a tremendous amount of protective rock between the fracking operation and the groundwater. natural gas is critical to our future. at exxonmobil we recognize the challenges and how important it is to do this right. it's a life

he said he clearly has differences with his father and brother saif al islam.e said he's neutral, is neither in the rebel camp nor his father's camp and is trying to negotiate a cease-fire. the divisions are significant. until now gadhafi's family have been the power brokers, the main people that have run the country. they have always stuck together. now the cohesion is falling apart. >> our thanks to nic robertson for that exclusive report speaking to moammar gadhafi's son. >>> president obama tours the devastation in new jersey caused by the remnants of hurricane irene. the report right after the break. stay close. and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a huge breakthrough. that's good for our country's energy security and our economy. that's good for [ bedistracted driving.se

he clearly his differences with his father and his brother, saif a al islam. the divisions are significant because until now, gadhafi's family have been the power brokers, the main people that have run the country. they've always stuck together and now that cohesion is falling apart. alena? >> nic, as you well know, the rebels have set a saturday deadline for gadhafi to surrender, now this development. how do you see things playing out in libya over the next few day? >> they've even talked about extending that cease-fire. there has been some discussion about it certainly from political leaders, the one senior military commander on the rebel side told me he wasn't comfortable with that extension that the political leaders had given, the emtensixtension of a week, until this weekend. it seems the military commanders have the initiative right now and it does seem they will go into bani walid and see a scene slightly reminiscent of tripoli where the rebels will quickly take control over perhaps small, fierce skirmishes. those loyal to gadhafi will run away. this s

and his heir apparent, the hard-partying saif, who just told a reporter on the phone, victory is neare of daddy's palace, after the rebels smashed his compound, there's aisha's face in bronze. in her own abandoned home, rebels threw open the doors for all to see. they gawked at the gaudy about luns, a tv in the bathroom, and a jacuzzi. our own jeffrey kofman was there. >> when you see how she lived, what do you think? >> reporter: how could she live like this? the rebels cooled off in her pool. aisha had a gold-plated couch, a mermaid with aisha's face. and her personana photo album? claudia schiffer -- i don't know. here's a rebel on the mermaid couch. and there's aisha in happier times in her wedding gown. >> she's very good looking. very blond. >> reporter: colin freeman is one of the very few who she interviewed her. >> she's clad in all the latest designer gear. very, very well turned out. >> reporter: but there's more to aisha than that. educated in france, she's a lieutenant colonel in the army. she was a u.n. good will ambassador. and she heads a charity that defended the guy

but, they, we did hear saif and his father say over and over again, they will not leave the country,il we actually see them outside of libya, i think that we might want to take their word for it. >> and briefly, have the opposition forces said what they will do with gadhafi if and when they catch him? >> well, that i say that they are going to put him on trial, and whether that is in libya or before the international criminal court, and the hague is not clear. this is what they say. i have spent a lot of time with the fighters here and one of them made it quite clear what he would do if he found moammar gadhafi, and he pulled out the bayonet and dragged it across his throat. that is a very good possibility if in the heat of battle they come across moammar gadhafi, i don't think that they will be getting out the lawbooks, anderson. >> ben wedeman, stay safe to you and your crew. still ahead in the "crime and punishment" an openly gay teen shot dead in his classroom and why his alleged gunman could go free despite a confession. >>> and the 9/11 attacks, ten years later, and drew goodma

into night here meanwhile interpol has issued red notices for the colonel's arrest along with his son saif al islam. syria protesters say eleven people were killed in new anti-government rallies across the country on friday thousands of demonstrators appealed for international help in the face of a bloody crackdown by the armed forces all more than twenty two hundred people are thought to have been killed since march of the uprising that's call for president bashar assad to step down. state of emergency has been declared in the u.s. states of york and pennsylvania after two rational rains from the tropical storm caused catastrophic flooding some towns were submerged as a river burst its banks with water that's also appeared to be toxic. we southern people have been killed and more than one hundred thousand evacuated. but with a decade of follow the dive eleven attacks washington's campaigns in iraq and afghanistan were aimed at ridding the world of terror but ten years later do you people feel any safer the resident laurie harkness asked people on the streets of new york what they think. a

still to come, keeping new york saif 10 years after 9/11, how the city is being protected. the russian president dmitry medvedev said there must be swift action to improve aviation safety. this comes a day after players from a top ice hockey team were killed when their airplane failed to take off and crashed into the banks of the volga river. the president said this must be done in the shortest time possible. steve rosenberg has more from the scene of the crash. >> in the river, the search continued into the morning, not for survivors but plane wreckage and bodies. dmitry medvedev had been due in the city for a political conference, but began his day here. at the site of the air crash, he laid roses and bowed his head in honor of the dead. later he criticized the safety record of russian airlines. he wore to if this country cannot produce reliable aircraft, it would have to buy foreign-made airplanes. the jet had crashed here in a ball of flame soon after takeoff. 43 of the 45 people on board were killed. among the dead were players, coaches, and officials from one of russi

the country, that he was not particularly, perhaps not in line with everything that his father and saifeever, he said he was giving them his support. now when he speaks out and said something different that he wants to negotiate to bring about a cease-fire with the transitional council that are rejengting having any dealings of any member with gadhafi's family, it means there are splits right now in the gadhafi family. part of its strength has been in the unity. you can see it breaking apart. some of the family members we now know have fled to algeria. we are seeing brothers that stood side by side splitting in how they want to handle the country. the gadhafi family, we're beginning to see the end is coming right now. >> that report from cnn's nic robertson in tripoli. >>> among some attending a meeting concerning libya. >>> up next, see this guy in that sweater vest? why this 10-year-old thinks straws suck. at usaa, we believe honor is not exclusive to the military. and commitment is not limited to one's military oath. the same set of values that drive our nation's military are the ones

border in tunisia where meanwhile interpol has issued arrest warrants for both a colonel and his son saif al islam. a syrian protesters say a leaven people were killed in the latest round of anti-government rallies across the country on friday thousands of demonstrators appealed for international help in the face of help and what a crackdown by security forces. more than twenty two hundred people are thought to have been killed since march the op rising that's called for president bashar assad to step down. a state of emergency has been declared in the u.s. states of new york and pennsylvania after torrential rains from tropical storm lee cause catastrophic flooding some towns were submerged as the river burst its banks with water that's also appeared to be toxic at least seven people have been killed more than one hundred thousand evacuated. in the decade that followed the nine eleven attacks washington's campaigns in iraq and afghanistan were aimed at rooting out the causes of terror ten years later do people feel any safer the resident laurie harshness to ask people in the streets of n

an easy chair meanwhile interpol has issued red notices for the colonel's arrest along with his son saif al islam. syrian protesters say eleven people have been killed in new anti-government rallies across the country friday thousands of demonstrators appealed for international aid in the face of a bloody crackdown by army forces more than two thousand two hundred people are thought to have been killed in the uprising that's called for a posh are all assad to step to leave since march. a state of emergency has been declared in the u.s. states of new york and pennsylvania after torrential rains from troubles of tropical storm lee caused catastrophic flooding some towns were submerged as a river burst its banks and water that's also appeared to be toxic at least seven people have been killed and more than one hundred thousand evacuated. the decade that followed nine eleven has been called. the u.s. air of endless war by some critics washington's campaign in iraq and afghanistan were aimed at ridding the world of evil but ten years later two people feel safe or he's laurie harvest people on

into niger meanwhile interpol has issued a red notices for the colonel's arrest along with his son saif al islam. syria the protesters say eleven people were killed in a new government rallies across the country on friday thousands of demonstrators appealed for international help in the face of a bloody crackdown by the forces of more than twenty two hundred people are thought to have been killed since the uprising that's called for president bashar on the sat. well in the decade that followed the nine eleven attacks washington's campaigns in iraq and afghanistan were aimed at ridding the world of terror but ten years later do people feel any safer resident laura harford as sas people on the streets of new york what they think. a decade after the horrible man eleven terrorist attacks on the us how is the world changed this week let's talk about back where this i won't say more dangerous but it's more like our tick saw things are predictable you don't know what what's going to happen next life is much intense i think so no. every day can can be the last and you think people around the wo

transitional council as a legitimate governing authority of libya meanwhile in the be a colonel gadhafi son saif islam has vowed to fight to the death say nobody will surrender in the town of seared the last loyalist stronghold well that shortly after his brother our society reportedly offered to mediate with the rebels to stop the bloodshed and often and joins us live now with the latest so maria looks like could obvious family has lost its unity there. yes marina rush just recognize it as just recognized national transitional council as libya's functional authority and what we're hearing here from the inner circle of khadafi makes us believe that the reason this plea there we've been hearing from the two of gadhafi son and surprisingly quite contrary things i had of the rebels assault on kid up his hometown of syria east of the capital tripoli and never lead in the south safe well islam has claimed that they will never surrender and will fight till their dad just days before the rebels al to meet expires say fall islam has apparently talked to. the weighty private satellite television meanwhil

have been put forward are either too expensive to outlandish on have been dubbed a little bit too saif by or they're just not workable now the big problem comes is as i say around twenty thousand objects are being tracked at the moment the most recent one you can see a shot of just right there they came down to earth most recent large object was the u.a.e. r.s. . research module it was a nasa satellite that had been monitoring the the atmosphere that came down to earth last week and part of it went through the atmosphere now that the reason that we have so much space junk in the big problem comes is that the space junk is growing exponentially due to something called the kessler effect now what this is one piece of space junk crashes into another piece of space junk and makes more space junk so the scientists and those who are are monitoring the pieces of debris that are up there the big concern for them is the. and around six years we might not be able to actually get. to there might be as not enough space junk up there to cause problems from launching. anything from earth bump into s

however, another son of gadhafi, saif al- islam, said through an audio statement broadcast on a syrian -owned satellite channel... that no one is going to surrender and over twenty- thousand pro-gadhafi defenders are ready to fight the rebels. english "well, it's not surprising now that the remnants of the gadhafi regime are in a confused state and are giving out different messages. and so, yes, we have heard from different gadhafi sons, through the media, over the last 24 hours: messages of surrender, messages of defiance." while rebels flatly dismissed the remarks by ghaddafi's sons,... the two conflicting messages show that the failing regime is running out of time. park ji-won, arirang news. in this installment in our series on social enterprises, we visit a company that employs ethnic koreans in russia's far east. these korean people were rounded up and exiled by the soviets during world war two and in the 1990's had to flee again and start from scratch. our kim yeon-ji explains how the company, called baridream,... is helping them rebuild their lives. the social enterprise baridr

in a while in the area colonel gadhafi son saif al islam has vowed to fight to the death saying nobody will surrender the town of sirte the last loyalist stronghold that shortly after his brother are reportedly offered to mediate with the rebels to stop the bloodshed i didn't worry if an option has more from tripoli. what we're hearing here from the inner circle of gadhafi makes us believe that the resists fleet there we've been hearing from the two of gadhafi son and surprisingly quite contrary things ahead of the rebels' assault on cut off his hometown of sered east of the capital tripoli and benevolent in the south safe but islam has claimed that they will never surrender and will fight till their dad just days before the rebels ultimate expires paperless one has apparently talked to. a weighty private satellite television meanwhile the rebels command has claims that could up his third son saadi is currently trying to negotiate with them the terms of his own surrender he has said that saadi called him asking about where safety could be guaranteed for him yet this information. cannot

another commander claimed that gadhafi's son, saif, is in the city and he's armed 80 mercenaries. yet another says actually the number of armed loyalists is closer to 600. "we will enter bani walid with great force," he says. "we will attack from all sides." and late today, word that talks collapsed, and the fight seems likely. with rebel forces still battling gadhafi, questions are being raised about one of their top commanders, abdul hakim belhag. human rights watch found and released documents suggesting that in 2004 the cia helped in the capture and return of belhag to libya. at the time he was wanted as a terror suspect. the rebel leader said he's renounced extremism and like the fighters at the dusty outpost, he's focused on two things, secure the country and find moammar gadhafi. stephanie gosk, nbc news, outside of bani walid. >>> former imf chief, dominique strauss-kahn is back home in paris tonight, two weeks after prosecutors here in new york dropped attempted rape charges against him. strauss-kahn returned to a crush of reporters in france, where he faces another attem

russian capital you're watching r t m arena joshie welcome to the program in libya colonel gadhafi son saif al islam has vowed to fight to the death saying nobody will surrender in the town of sered last loyalist stronghold that shortly after his brother reportedly offered to mediate with the rebels to stop the bloodshed despite fighting across most of the country now over people still don't feel safe as many of the national reports leader has been flooded with weapons that have fallen into untrained hands. my mama is a libyan rebel he got a bullet in his ankle fighting against gadhafi soldiers in seclusion or tripoli but with a shot coming from his side which. i didn't even notice until my friend told me that my foot was bleeding he pulled the trigger by mistake it was himself. this is a reality of today's libya for when the rubble stray off and march from the country tons of conduct is captured weapons have fallen into the hands of nonprofessional fighters one of the biggest stories was discovered at the obviously in top security prison in southern tripoli where inmates were released afte

battle with his regime on the floor of the intelligence chief office lay on the it dressing gadhafi son saif al islam inside i found what appears to be a summary of a conversation between u.s. congressman dennis kucinich who publicly opposed u.s. policy on libya and an intermediary for the libyan leader's son and that report goes on but the allegation is that congress think the senate was helping qaddafi with this in your piece. well i think a copy of a report of because since his views on the conflict which were very critical of president obama for going in without congressional support into libya for acting in ways that were perceived as unconstitutional not just by the senate but by. republicans as well that doesn't constitute correct support for khadafy it can be spun that way i don't know that would exactly what happened but i haven't heard the signatures comments on it yet either so i would be very careful to jump to conclusions based on some document which was not really a it was about this in it's not by consent i want to keep this going for just one minute because then it's very his

one of gadhafi's son saif al islam claims sirte is being defended by 20,000 gadhafi supporters. is it a bluff in the transitional leaders are hoping to avoid bloodshed there. let's go to cnn's senior international correspondent nic robertson in the capital city of tripoli. nic, gadhafi has all but been written off there, but keeping in mind saddam hussein what, we saw in iraq, can gadhafi cause the kind of trouble, you know, fighting month to month, town to town like he's threatening today? >> reporter: it seems to be a lot of rhetoric and a lot of bluff. yesterday saif al islam in a speech about this time said that this is the moment to attack, attack, attack and then nothing happened. there was no big attack from the gadhafi loyalists. so if the audience he's speaking to doesn't seem to be acting on his words. however, what's interesting is the former foreign minister here turned himself in to the national transitional council overnight, and he has told them that he believes, and this former foreign minister was living here in the city and called two national transitional coun

however he said on thursday when his brother saif gave an addressive speech on television urging supporters to keep fighting, he told me at that point that the national transition council, the rebels said the ceasefire talks are off if your brother is going to talk like that. right now he believes there's no point in negotiations, that the national transitional counsel is massing troops to move in. he did however say, this is very significant. he clearly has differences with his father and his brother. there's clearly divisions emerging in the family. he said he is neutral, neither in the remembbel camp or his father's camp. they've always stuck together and now that cohesion is falling apart. alina? >> nic, as you know, the rebels have said a deadline for gadhafi to surrender. how do you see things playing out in libya over the next few days. >> they even talked about extending that cease fire. there have been some discussion about it from political leaders. the one senior military commander told me he wasn't comfortable with that extension that the political leaders had given this extensi

they're most interested in saif islam the other brother and the man they call the big fish, moammar gadhafi. don? >> cnn's ben wedeman. thank you, ben. >>> moving on to talk about the 9/11 anniversary in new york and washington and pennsylvania. a day of solemn remembrances on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. [ moment of silence ] >>> a moment of silence at ground zero this morning at 8:46. that's when american airlines flight 11 crashed into the north tower exactly ten years ago. the start of the worst terror attack in u.s. history. now the site is a sacred memorial to the nearly 3,000 people who died that day. the footprints of the twin towers transformed into deep fountains. one by one the names were read aloud of the people who died. a wreath laying at pentagon for the 184 people killed when american airlines flight 77 flew into the side of the building. and in shanksville, pennsylvania, a ceremony at the site where united states airlines flight 93 went down in a field. the passengers had fought back against their hijackers. cnn's poppy harlow is in new york for us tonight. poppy, ten yea

issued its top most wanted alert for the arrest of former libyan leader moammar gadhafi and his son saifthe move follows a request by the international criminal court which is seeking the men for alleged crimes against humanity. gadhafi has not been seen in public for months and went underground after rebels swept into tripoli and stormed his compound. >>> former wrestling executive linda mcmahon is on the verge of announcing another run for the u.s. senate in connecticut. the republican party chairman tells the new haven register mcmahon's announcement is imminent. she spent more than $50 million of her own money in an unsuccessful campaign last year against democrat richard blumenthal. >> the president is about to deliver his first live remarks out of richmond, virginia. have i got a surprise for you! a mouthwatering combination of ingredients... i know you're gonna love. [ barks ] yes, it's new beneful healthy fiesta. made with wholesome grains, real chicken, even accents of tomato and avocado. yeah! come on! [ barking ] gotta love the protein for muscles-- whoo-hoo! and omega-rich nu

language satellite television station talking about this, whereas at the same time his other brother, saif gadhafi, and moammar gadhafi himself, have both been on another satellite station that broadcasts out of syria saying that the fight should carry on, that the loyalists should continue to fight the government. so we've seen this public split. so i think -- also talking to one of the national transitional council commanders who had negotiated directly with saadi gadhafi, he told me that those discussions have been under way. so we can see that there is a rift, that two parts of the family have taken two different approaches. that's in the public domain. what his aim is to do in niger and what his travel options from there will be if he's able to travel further on, unclear at the moment, fredricka. >> nic robertson, thanks so much from kabul. still whereabouts unknown, moammar gadhafi. >>> all right. across america and around the world now, a day of remembrance on this tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. ♪ >> in new york, somber ceremonies at the new 9/11 memorial, the names o

let's also keep in mind that in the past rebel officials have put out reports, for instance, that saifm and gadhafi had been captured, it turned out not to be true, it may be part of an an effort to undermine the areas of the country that remain loyal to moammar gadhafi. outside of bani walid, they are trying to work their way, the rebels are trying to convince the local inhabitants to trust them to allow them to go in. there are battles outside the town of sirte along the coast, the hometown of moammar gadhafi, so there is sort of an attempt to undermine the resolve of those parts of the country that until now have resisted the rebel rebel rebels' advances, john? >> and some hoped there might be a negotiated settlement between the rebels and what's left of the regime forces and loyalists, but you were part of covering those talks today, and things didn't go as planned, right? >> reporter: they certainly did not. in fact, ntc officials tell us that they were up all night last night with the elders from bani walid trying to give them these assurances that there would be no retribution,