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That's right. There's more breaking news, because, it's good breaking news. The New York Times has just reported that those four journalists, two reporters, including Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Stephen Farrel, and two photographers, according to the Times, they were captured by Pro-Gaddafi forces but will be released today. That was the hope, that was the speculation⁵ that they got caught up in the retreat of rebel forces in or near Ajdabiya about 90 miles south of Benghazi. They had reported the last Sunday checked in with their bureaus was early Tuesday morning, your time, and hadn't been heard from since. We've been in touch with the New York Times reporter here in Tripoli at this hotel and until today he had said there was no news, but that certainly is a good news.

 

You, your league mentioned the other breaking news and that is that the Libyan government in the guides of Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa did come to us today here and told the foreign journalists that the government was accepting the UN resolution No. 1973 was immediately putting in place a ceasefire that it agreed and welcomed a couple of notions in that resolution namely for the protection of civilians and the territorial⁶ integrity of Libya, and again welcomed those notions. Moussa Koussa went on to say that the country wanted to get back to safe and secure environment. He said that he was saddened, that the government was saddened by the no-fly zone addition to that resolution. He says it should not have included commercial airlines, it should not have closed Libyan airspace to commercial flights, that will simply increase the suffering of the Libyan people and the civilian³ should be exempted⁷ from the resolution, but it certainly does on a sound like a stepping back, a retreat on a military level at least of this government, though knowing the regime, knowing the leader of this regime. There is no doubt that we're going to see over the next days or weeks now of this government turning what looks like a setback⁸ and a retreat into a step-forward. Remember he has a large arsenal⁹ just 60 miles south of Benghazi. He shows no indication at least today of pulling back, of retreating, he could stay there, or he could push on into or near Benghazi and without using artillery¹⁰ or airstrikes, or even motors move in on a very tactical basis at night perhaps like a police operation and go for the leaders of the rebels and the opposition¹¹, so again it does look like a step back which, but it doesn't mean that there'll be a major retreat militarily and politically certainly there's no indication known that Gaddafi or his regime is going anywhere.Back to you, Tom

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