Libyan rebellion supporters perform a song to cheer fighters heading to the frontline from the eastern town of Ajdabiya on April 6, 2011.
(Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images/Getty)
Days after the mysterious death of Libya's top rebel leader, opposition fighters staged an eight-hour gunfight with a group Qaddafi loyalists who were posing as another rebel brigade. Tensions within the rebels ranks suggest that there is not unity among the factions. These developments are are latest in a chaotic, confused, and violent situation.
David Kirkpatrick of The New York Times, joins us from the Tunisian/Libyan border, and tells us more about the precarious events on the ground.
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