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  • [INTRO]

  • [INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

  • SHANE: We just got into rebel controlled Libya.

  • This is a checkpoint the rebels are controlling.

  • They're controlling more and more and more to Libya with

  • each passing day.

  • We're just wondering when they're going to actually get

  • to Tripoli.

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: They left the army and joined the revolution.

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: Where they worried if Gaddafi won they would get in

  • a lot of trouble?

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: He's a very courageous man.

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: Like most journalists, I'd been fascinated by Libya

  • for a long time.

  • While Gaddafi was in power, it was much like North Korea- a

  • hermit-like Stalinist cult of personality state, with an

  • absolute dictator at it's head.

  • To get in was extremely difficult.

  • [MIDDLE EASTERN MUSIC]

  • SHANE: In 2010, after years of trying, I managed to wrangle

  • an invitation to a youth conference there.

  • We didn't really care about the event itself.

  • But we wanted to talk to people on the street, and see

  • what was really happening inside of Libya, and how it

  • was affected by Gaddafi's brutal regime.

  • But very shortly after we got there, we were arrested for

  • sightseeing without our minders, put under house

  • arrest, and repeatedly threatened with jail.

  • CAMERAMAN: Was that a knock?

  • If they ask me why I'm shooting I'm going to say this

  • is evidence just in case something happens to us.

  • SHANE: Oh that's good.

  • They'll take our fucking tapes.

  • Evidence.

  • Don't come here.

  • Don't ever come here.

  • They finally let us out on the day before we were supposed to

  • fly, but only with two secret police minders, who wouldn't

  • be on camera, and one youth guy who was very, very freaky.

  • Right.

  • We finally got out of Libya in November of 2010.

  • And this was Libya only three months later, in February.

  • [ROCK MUSIC AND CROWDS CHANTING]

  • SHANE: I didn't see Arab Spring coming, not a lot of

  • people did.

  • But I especially didn't see it happening in Libya, because

  • Gaddafi had such a stranglehold of

  • fear over the country.

  • But unlike Egypt and Tunisia, which were largely peaceful

  • protests, Gaddafi wouldn't back down, and soon began

  • killing his own people.

  • [GUNSHOTS AND SCREAMING]

  • SHANE: Then it exploded into a full fledged revolution, with

  • Gaddafi, his army, sub-Saharan mercenaries, and his arsenal

  • on one side, and citizens turned rebels with whatever

  • weapons they could find on the other.

  • [GUNSHOTS]

  • SHANE: Surprisingly, Libya had become the tip of the spear of

  • the Arab revolution.

  • And we had to go back to see for ourselves what was

  • happening, and to talk to the rebels who had shocked the

  • world by opposing their dictator.

  • [GUNSHOTS]

  • SHANE: So in July of 2011, at the height of the conflict, we

  • headed to the front lines, which were located about 200

  • kilometers east of Tripoli, in the port city of Misrata.

  • The problem was getting to Misrata was not easy.

  • NATO had imposed a no fly zone over Libya, as a way to help

  • the rebels.

  • So the only way into the country was to actually fly to

  • Cairo, in Egypt, then drive 20 hours across the Sahara Desert

  • to the border.

  • Once there, you had to wait for the rebels to come across,

  • and then bring you over.

  • After that, you had to drive another 15 hours to Benghazi,

  • the rebel capital where, if you were lucky, you could

  • hitchhike onto a boat, which was the only way

  • in or out of Misrata.

  • As we drove through Benghazi, it was hard to believe that

  • this was where the revolution had started.

  • Fisherman's were still fishing.

  • The electricity was on.

  • People were working.

  • It seemed amazing to me how normally people were going

  • about their daily lives [INAUDIBLE] the fighting here

  • had just recently ended.

  • But Misrata was another story.

  • There was still heavy fighting there.

  • It was completely surrounded by Gaddafi's troops.

  • So the few ships the rebels could muster were the only way

  • to supply the city.

  • [SIREN]

  • SHANE: We finally got to the port, where we met Captain

  • Ali, the harbor master, who promised to help us get on one

  • of the rare boats into Misrata.

  • Is this the ship?

  • CAPTAIN ALI: Yes, that's the one.

  • SHANE: So this ship just arrived.

  • CAPTAIN ALI: Yes.

  • SHANE: And now it's going to turn right around and go back.

  • CAPTAIN ALI: Yes.

  • SHANE: And what are they going to load onto the ship?

  • CAPTAIN ALI: They are loading food, medical assistance.

  • [INAUDIBLE].

  • SHANE: This is the lifeline.

  • The only lifeline to Misrata is from

  • this ship from Benghazi.

  • CAPTAIN ALI: Yes, that's the only one.

  • SHANE: And is there a lot of fighting in Misrata right now?

  • CAPTAIN ALI: Yes, right now, yes.

  • SHANE: And the rebels are trying to

  • push towards Tripoli?

  • CAPTAIN ALI: They are pushing towards, not trying.

  • I We are pushing towards Tripoli.

  • SHANE: And aren't you worried for being a rebel, that--

  • CAPTAIN ALI: No way.

  • No way.

  • Because I will not allow him to catch me alive.

  • SHANE: Yes.

  • CAPTAIN ALI: Either we meet in Tripoli or we meet in Heaven.

  • SHANE: So it's either victory or death.

  • CAPTAIN ALI: Yes, either victory or death.

  • There is no other solution.

  • No retreat, no surrender.

  • SHANE: And what do the people here think of Gaddafi?

  • SHANE: He is the father of the devil, not

  • the son of the devil.

  • The devil is ashamed of what he's doing now to Libya.

  • We already know that he is crazy, but we never thought

  • that he would do this harm to us.

  • SHANE: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, or the brother

  • leader, as he likes to be called, is a textbook

  • tyrannical dictator.

  • In fact, he's possibly the worst

  • despot in recent history.

  • In his 40 year reign, he's been both

  • ruthless and eccentric.

  • He publicly hangs dissenters at home, and he hunts down

  • those that escape abroad.

  • And has been the financial supporter of pretty much every

  • terrorist organization you can imagine.

  • And he's actually admitted to terrorist acts, like the

  • Lockerbie bombing in 1988.

  • And his brutal response to his own people's call for reform

  • was so barbaric that he's recently been charged with

  • crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.

  • CAPTAIN ALI: We will punish them.

  • We will take them to court and put them in jail.

  • They came to kill our kids.

  • They came to rape our women.

  • They came to vanish us from the face of the earth.

  • We will get rid of him, sooner or later.

  • SHANE: And despite the fact that the boat was already

  • overcrowded, Captain Ali was good to his word, and got us

  • on the last ferry to Misrata.

  • [INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

  • SHANE: So we're getting on the last boat to Misrata, to see

  • the sharp end of the revolution.

  • They're going [INAUDIBLE] to push to Tripoli.

  • The slogan of the revolution is, our capitalist revolution.

  • Meaning they're not going to settle for half and half.

  • They were telling us today, they're going to fight until

  • they're dead, because if they don't win, they're dead.

  • SHANE: Hello.

  • REBEL: Hello.

  • SHANE: How are you?

  • REBEL: How are you?

  • No Gaddafi.

  • SHANE: No Gaddafi.

  • No Gaddafi.

  • REBEL: No Gadaffi.

  • SHANE: No Gaddafi.

  • And so you go every couple of days to Misrata?

  • How long have you been doing the trip?

  • Four months?

  • From the beginning you've been going back and forth?

  • When did that happen?

  • One day ago they bombed this boat?

  • You think there will be more missiles when we go?

  • [INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

  • SHANE: So in the long boat ride from Benghazi to the

  • front lines of Misrata, everyone was concerned with

  • only one thing--

  • getting back to the fight.

  • And it didn't matter in what condition.

  • They could have broken arms and broken legs, and in some

  • cases, they could even have missing limbs.

  • So he was just saying that he lost his leg.

  • And he was supposed to go to complete his statement.

  • But he snuck out of the hospital to go back

  • to Misrata to fight.

  • And how is it there now?

  • Does he know how it is now?

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: And if they don't kill Gaddafi what happens?

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: Though the fighting had been going on for nearly six

  • months at this point, every rebel we met on the boat was

  • still defiant.

  • Even though the odds seemed so stacked against them, most

  • were still really optimistic about

  • their chances for victory.

  • [INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: And even though Gaddafi's troops had a vastly

  • superior arsenal, the rebels would fight them with anything

  • they could find.

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • We also spoke to a higher ranking rebel officer, who was

  • returning to the fight in Misrata, about what conditions

  • were like on the ground.

  • Has there been fighting in Misrata recently?

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: Good luck.

  • OFFICER: Thank you.

  • [SHOUTING IN ARABIC]

  • SHANE: So we're arriving now in Misrata, which is

  • completely encircled by Gaddafi's troops.

  • They're trying to push forwards to Tripoli.

  • It's the front lines.

  • It's very close to Tripoli.

  • In fact, this boat is the only way in.

  • It's the only way out.

  • It's carrying about 300 troops, machine guns, aid.

  • There's been heavy fighting here.

  • Some journalists have been killed.

  • As we pulled into the port, there wasn't a lot of evidence

  • of the past fighting that had gone on.

  • There was some minor damage to a few of the port buildings.

  • There were a couple of Mad Max style trucks with machine guns

  • bolted on the back.

  • But other than that, it was strangely quiet.

  • But that quiet didn't last very long.

  • So we just arrived in Misrata.

  • We're hearing artillery or rocket attacks.

  • [GENERAL COMMOTION AND DISTANT BOOMING]

  • SHANE: You can see the smoke coming up there.

  • They know the ship is arriving, so they send some

  • missiles just to let them know we're here.

  • Hello.

  • Thank you.

  • Good, how are you?

  • Good.

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • Driving into Misrata, it seemed like spirits were

  • really high, and the city was functioning quite well.

  • Anyone who drove by us beeped their

  • horns and waved excitedly.

  • It was only when we reached the city center that we

  • realized how immediate and devastating the battles had

  • really been.

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: Some of the heaviest fighting that took place in

  • the revolution was right here on Tripoli Street, which is

  • one of the main arteries of Misrata, and connects the city

  • to Tripoli itself.

  • Gaddafi had ordered his troops not to surrender in Misrata,

  • so the fighting had been particularly fierce here.

  • His troops holed up on a high building, and picked off

  • fighters until the rebels had finally overwhelmed them.

  • The old building manager took us inside

  • to show us the aftermath.

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • [INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

  • SHANE: The fighting on Tripoli Street had ended shortly

  • before we got there.

  • In and front lines had moved on, about 20 kilometers down

  • the road, towards Tripoli itself.

  • So to get there we hitched a ride with a rebel driver, who

  • was running weapons to the front.

  • [MIDDLE EASTERN MUSIC]

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: One of the first places he was bringing weapons to was

  • this kind of half junkyard, half post

  • apocalyptic weapons factory.

  • Every kind of gun or missile launcher, or any kind of

  • weapon you could possibly imagine, was

  • affixed to a truck.

  • And your truck got blown up, fine.

  • They just put your gun on a new truck,

  • and you keep fighting.

  • [MIDDLE EASTERN MUSIC]

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: And course, anything that Gaddafi's troops left

  • behind was put back into use as quickly as possible.

  • And that included not only machine guns and anti-aircraft

  • batteries, but also tanks, and other heavy weaponry, like

  • these grad missile launching trucks that we

  • spotted on the beach.

  • SHANE: Stop.

  • We want to walk down and say hi.

  • Well, one way to find out.

  • MOHAMMED: Shane Smitch.

  • Shane--

  • SHANE: Shane Smith, yeah.

  • MOHAMMED: Smith, Shane Smith.

  • Friend.

  • SHANE: Friend.

  • OK.

  • Yes.

  • Russian?

  • MOHAMMED: Yes.

  • SHANE: These missiles shoot 20 kilometers?

  • At Gaddafi's people?

  • MOHAMMED: Yes.

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: They stole them or took them back from Gaddafi's

  • troops, and they're firing them at Gaddafi's troops.

  • And they come out here.

  • And then they make this big hole with flames.

  • So they've been firing quite a few out of here.

  • You can see the spent casings.

  • And they're targeting where, exactly?

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: And when we came in yesterday at the port, they

  • fired some grad missiles at the port.

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: And when do they fire their missiles?

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: They were just telling me they get their coordinates

  • through Google.

  • Arab Spring--

  • Facebook, Twitter, for their demonstrations.

  • And Google if you want to bomb them.

  • Technology at work.

  • So you push the button?

  • MOHAMMED: Yes, boom.

  • SHANE: Shoot rocket. .

  • This one's fully charged.

  • It looks like they're using it a lot more.

  • Fully charged and ready to go.

  • New?

  • New weapons.

  • You want the newest?

  • Gaddafi has new weapons.

  • He's asking Clinton and Obama to send more weapons, so that

  • they can go take Tripoli, so he can live his a dream, which

  • is to play for the Miami Heat basketball.

  • MOHAMMED: Yes.

  • SHANE: Yes.

  • He wants to come to America.

  • OK.

  • The thing that struck me the most as we got closer to the

  • front line was just how incredibly young some of these

  • rebels were.

  • It was pretty surreal to watch these kids, barely out of

  • puberty, fighting and dying for this

  • abstract concept of freedom.

  • Abstract because real freedom was something they've never

  • known, as Gaddafi had been in power since

  • before they were born.

  • After long days of traveling through Libya, we were 20

  • kilometers outside of Misrata, and closing in on the front.

  • Our driver handed us off to other rebels, who could take

  • us the rest of the way.

  • When we finally got to the front, they were really

  • nervous about our camera giving away their location.

  • And we had to limit our shots.

  • They were obviously digging in, and preparing an attack

  • that they told us they were expecting within the next 12

  • to 24 hours.

  • In fact, while we were there, they got word that a major

  • offensive was about to start.

  • So they advised to leave Misrata as soon as we possibly

  • could, because they thought the offensive

  • was going to be huge.

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • There's no ships out.

  • We took the last ship in.

  • So we're going to take this fishing boat.

  • Aside from ourselves, the captain had also taken on a

  • few rebels who were heading back Benghazi They saw our

  • cameras and offered to show us some pics of their own.

  • The boat back to Benghazi only motored about seven

  • kilometers an hour.

  • And this afforded me a lot of time to think about

  • what I had just seen.

  • I had witnessed something in Libya that is usually only

  • read about in history books--

  • revolution.

  • People rising up against a tyrant, and risking

  • everything to do.

  • [ANIMATED INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

  • SHANE: Everyone, without exception, when we asked them

  • why they were fighting, responded the same way.

  • And so young Libyans are risking their lives to--

  • CAPTAIN ALI: Only for freedom.

  • We want to be like Europe, like [INAUDIBLE].

  • We don't ask for much.

  • SHANE: Right.

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • [SPEAKING ARABIC]

  • SHANE: Despite still being surrounded by Gaddafi's

  • troops, everyone on board was convinced that the fall of

  • Tripoli was just around the corner.

  • And it turned out they were right.

  • About a month later, that's exactly what happened.

  • [ANIMATED INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

  • SHANE: Suddenly, after a long stalemate, on August 21, the

  • rebels finally stormed Tripoli.

  • [ANIMATED INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

  • SHANE: Now the next few months will probably be very ugly, as

  • the rebels switch from fighting to governing, which

  • will be problematic and filled with uncertainty.

  • What just happened in Libya gives me hope that indeed we

  • can write our own history.

  • [ANIMATED INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

  • [CHANTING]

  • [INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

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