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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The longest-serving Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee told CNN Radio on Thursday that, barring any surprises, Sonia Sotomayor is headed for a Supreme Court confirmation.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court.

"If there are no otherwise disqualifying matters here, it appears to me she will probably be confirmed," Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said.

Hatch was acknowledging the current Senate political landscape. Sotomayor was nominated by a Democrat president, and Democrats could have 60 votes in the 100-member chamber if Minnesota's Al Franken is seated. They now hold 12 of the 19 seats on the Senate Judiciary Committee that will first consider Sotomayor's nomination.

Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, said Thursday he does not plan to vote to confirm Sotomayor, becoming the first Republican to explicitly state his opposition.

"She has made statements on the role of the appeals court I think is improper and incorrect," Roberts said. "I think that we should be judging people not on race and gender, or background or ethnicity or a very compelling story."

Hatch -- who unlike Roberts voted in favor of Sotomayor's 1998 nomination to the federal appeals court -- also revealed one of the first Republican battle lines on the nomination: the schedule.  See Sotomayor's key rulings Â»

President Obama and other Sotomayor supporters say they want her confirmed before the Senate goes on its August recess, so that she can be well-situated for the start of the next Supreme Court session in October.

Hatch and fellow Judiciary Committee Republicans Jon Kyl of Arizona and John Cornyn of Texas are pushing for a longer timeframe. They say it is almost impossible to review Sotomayor's extensive record, debate her nomination and hold a Senate vote by August.

"If the Democrats don't overplay their hand and don't try to rush this too much, the process will go well, they'll be better off, she'll get confirmed," Hatch said, again adding that his prediction is based on no new concerns coming to light.

The opposition party usually fights for extensive time to try to find hidden issues in a Supreme Court nominee's record. Hatch said senators need three months to consider Sotomayor and that a vote should come in September, after the Senate's August break.

A September vote would crunch Sotomayor's preparation time for setting up her office before the high court's next term begins. It also would complicate Democratic fights on health care and energy that could reach a critical point at that time.  See whom Sotomayor would sit alongside if she's confirmed Â»

Hatch insisted a September Senate vote would get Sotomayor on the bench in time for the new Supreme Court session.

"If they do it the right way," he said of Senate Democrats, "and there is no otherwise disqualifying feature to this, it is highly likely she is going to be confirmed as the ninth justice on the Supreme Court in time to sit on the court on the first Monday of October."

Meetings on the timetable have begun. On Thursday, White House staffers met with aides to Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to go over this and their strategies for Sotomayor's confirmation, according to a Senate Democratic aide involved in the confirmation process.

Sotomayor will go to Capitol Hill as early as Tuesday to meet with senators who will vote on her confirmation.

The Judiciary Committee has not announced when the confirmation hearings will begin.

Democrats were relieved Wednesday when Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, and the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said he did not think Republicans would block the nomination with a filibuster.

But prominent conservatives still are trying to stir public opinion against Sotomayor. Radio host Rush Limbaugh and former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich have called her racist, pointing to an October 2001 speech at the University of California, Berkeley.

During that speech, she said: "I would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

The Senate Democratic aide involved in the confirmation process said Democrats are pleased with the initial response from Republican senators to Sotomayor's nomination, saying it was a "good sign" that GOP senators have not adopted some of the language coming from Limbaugh and Gingrich.

"If the fire-breathing rhetoric is contained to the far right element, it doesn't jeopardize the nomination," the aide said.

CNN's Alexander Mooney contributed to this report.

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is writing a prequel to her best-selling series  to be auctioned for charity -- but at just 800 words, it may lack some of the magic fans of the boy wizard might be hoping for.

Autographed copies of J.K. Rowling's work have fetched millions of dollars at auction.

Rowling's hand-written prequel, signed by the author, will be auctioned alongside works by other famous writers to raise cash for a dyslexia charity.

Despite the brevity of the piece, experts believe it could fetch big money, since other autographed works by the blockbuster author have sold for millions of dollars.

"We never dreamed that J.K. Rowling would donate something so precious, and we're incredibly grateful," said Gerry Johnson, managing director of Waterstone's, the UK book chain organizing the auction.

"I can't begin to guess how much it will raise at auction."

A previous 93-word storycard from Rowling, which referred to the book "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," sold in 2002 for $53,000. Rowling later produced seven hand-written copies of a new work, "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," one of which sold for $3.9 million in 2007.

"Given the enormous interest we have seen in recent times for autograph work by J.K. Rowling, the prospects for her storycard are good to say the least," said Philip Errington, a specialist at Sotheby's auction house, which is helping to organize the sale.

The card on which the story is written -- measuring 14.6 by 20.9 centimeters (5.75 by 8.25 inches) -- is signed "JK Rowling 2008." The author signs off with the message: "From the prequel I am not working on -- but that was fun!"

Alongside Rowling, 13 other authors invited to contribute to the June 10 auction include Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Faulks, Nick Hornby, and Tom Stoppard. A book featuring all 13 cards will go on sale in August.

All profits from the book will benefit Dyslexia Action and English PEN, a writers' association, Waterstone's said.

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Washington (CNN) -- State visits to the White House are full of show and symbolism, and Tuesday's visit by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is no exception.

But Singh's visit, the first state visit hosted by the Obama administration, reflects India's growing political and economic importance to the United States and the deepening partnership between Washington and New Delhi.

The 2005 civil nuclear cooperation deal between the two countries symbolized a new status in U.S.-India relations. But that deal, yet to be ratified by the Indian parliament, was not in a vacuum. The Bush administration followed that up with agreements for increased cooperation on security, science and technology and education.

Singh's visit this week will build on that, with announcements expected on a range of areas from the economy and defense to climate change and energy.

India is a fellow democracy, and there is a strong Indian-American community in the U.S. So as it rises to power, India is a natural U.S. ally.

On every big global issue today -- from the economy to climate change to fighting terrorism and curbing nuclear proliferation -- Washington needs New Delhi's cooperation.

India is one of the biggest donors in Afghanistan, with $1.2 billion in aid. Although this has been met with suspicion in Pakistan, it has helped the United States, sharing some of the burden of stabilizing Afghanistan and providing civilian support.

India is also considered a critical U.S. partner in dealing with other instability in the region, in places like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Even as the U.S. deepens its cooperation with China on global issues, both Singh's government and the Obama administration want to manage China's meteoric rise.

Strong U.S.-India ties help both countries ensure that the "Asian century" is not merely the "Chinese century."

India has also become a major trading partner with the U.S., with $61 billion in trade in 2007. The U.S. is India's second-largest trading partner.

And India is a major exporter of technology software and services to the U.S., and that's expected to increase as India strengthens its role as a global leader in technology.

The relationship is not without its irritants, however, the biggest one being India's nuclear neighbor, Pakistan.

India believes the U.S. has failed to curb Islamabad's backing of anti-India extremists based in Pakistan, and tensions between India and Pakistan remain high, especially with Pakistan's slow progress on the investigation into last year's Mumbai attack that killed 166 people.

Before coming to Washington, Singh said that Pakistani objectives in Afghanistan aren't necessarily those of the U.S.

Pakistan has long seen instability in Afghanistan as critical to its war strategy against India. India is also nervous about a possible integration of some Taliban into power in Afghanistan.

Climate change is another point of friction. The U.S. wants India, one of world's the largest emitters of greenhouse gases, to accept limits on its carbon emissions. India maintains it is still a developing country and wants developed nations, like the U.S., to assume the lion's share of burden in dealing with climate change.

Another potential difference looms over Iran. India has been careful not to support Iran's government, but if U.S. diplomacy with Iran fails, it remains to be seen if New Delhi will support tougher sanctions if the U.S. decides to go that route.

As India's economy grows, so will its capability to be one of the U.S.' great partners. But as its international position strengthens, New Delhi's interests may not always be aligned with Washington's.

Obama must work to convince India that the U.S. sees it as an important ally and that its rise to power is in the U.S.' strategic interest. The symbolism of giving Singh the administration's first state visit will be a good start.

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(CNN) -- Three Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police officers became the first department fatalities since 1995 Saturday morning while responding to a domestic dispute call, Police Chief Nathan Harper said.

Law enforcement from several jurisdictions respond to a shooting standoff at Pittsburgh home Saturday.

"We have never had to lose three officers in the line of duty at one time at one call," Harper said.

Suspect Richard Poplawski surrendered around 11 a.m. outside the Stanton Heights home he shares with his mother after a standoff that lasted nearly four hours and left two more officers injured.

Wearing a bulletproof vest and armed with an AK-47, a long rifle and a pistol, Poplawski fired about 100 rounds during the standoff, Harper said.  Watch officers respond at the scene Â»

Poplawski was taken into custody after surrendering to law enforcement. He is expected to face charges of homicide, aggravated assault and other related offenses, Harper said.

Officer Paul Sciullo III was the first to approach the home after responding to the scene around 7:05 a.m. He was shot in the head as he entered the doorway.

When Officer Stephen Mayhle tried to help his fellow officer, he too was shot in the head, Harper said.

Officer Eric Kelly, who rushed to the scene on his way home after finishing his shift, was fatally shot as he attempted to assist his fallen colleagues, Harper said.

The shootings triggered a standoff between Poplawski, who was shooting from his bedroom window, and law enforcement agencies from several jurisdictions, Harper said.

Poplawski opened fire at an Army SWAT vehicle that arrived around 8:30 a.m., preventing them and medics from reaching the wounded policemen.

Officer Timothy McManaway also was shot in the hand, the chief said. Another officer, Brian Jones, broke his leg while trying to get over a fence while securing the rear of the house, he said.

Some neighbors were evacuated during the standoff. Neighbors reported that the family had caused trouble before and Harper said police had responded to calls from the home two or three times.

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(CNN) -- Mansour Daou is known as the "Black Box" of Moammar Gadhafi's regime -- like an aircraft's data recorder, he knows some of Libya's darkest secrets.

And as one of Gadhafi's top security officials, who remained at his side until the final hours, Daou has a unique insight into the astonishing downfall of Africa's longest-serving leader.

Now in an interview with CNN he describes how the dictator, who was once of the world's most feared leaders, was forced to scavenge for food and hide in abandoned houses in the coastal city of Sirte.

"He was very worried and erratic -- this could be because he was afraid," Daou said.

According to Daou, Gadhafi became desperate to travel to his birthplace, the village of Jaref, 20 kilometers west of Sirte, a journey that Daou feared was "suicide."

"He wanted to go to his village, maybe he wanted to die there or spend his last moments there," he said.

Finally, after NATO jets attacked his convoy, Gadhafi tried to escape on foot through drainage pipes, but was caught. He was later killed in circumstances that are still far from clear.

Gadhafi's autopsy reveals he was shot in head

Daou spoke as he awaited trial at a detention facility in the city of Misrata, which bore the brunt of the regime's most brutal assault during the conflict. The most significant charges he faces relate to his alleged role in the Abu Salim prison massacre in 1996, and his role in the alleged hiring of African mercenaries by the regime during the conflict. He told CNN he had no role in those events.

The interview was initially delayed by a few hours -- officials said Daou was being interrogated and asked CNN to return in the evening to speak to him.

The CNN crew was taken to the bottom floor of the building and led into a conference room where Daou sat at a long table with his interrogator -- a tall, tough-looking Libyan man.

Daou, in his late 50s, wore a traditional Arabic gray dishdasha robe and seemed to be in good health.

During the hour-long interview, Daou described how he had been in the same car as Gadhafi as they made their chaotic escape from the former leader's hometown of Sirte.

Gadhafi left Tripoli for Sirte on August 18, according to Daou -- just two days before fighters seeking to oust him entered the capital.

Daou said he remained in Tripoli until it became clear the city was no longer safe for the regime's top tier.

He then fled to the city of Bani Walid on August 22, along with Gadhafi's son, Saif al-Islam and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi. He stayed with them for four days before joining the former dictator in Sirte.

Daou said their living conditions went from bad to worse as the rebels tightened their siege of the city. They moved around abandoned houses every three to four days, he said, surviving on the little food they could find. Towards the end, they had no power, water or communication with the outside world. "Our lives had turned by about 180 degrees."

Gadhafi spent his final days writing and reading books he had stacked in suitcases, Daou said, but his behavior became more unpredictable. As fighters surrounded Sirte, Gadhafi's group wanted to leave the city.

Daou said he and others knew that if they did not leave before the siege there would be no way out. But Gadhafi refused to leave -- until October 20 -- when he and his son Mutassem decided to make the move to the former dictator's birthplace.

Their group of about 350 men had dropped to fewer than 200, according to Daou. "It started dropping daily with some killed, others wounded and those who had left with their families," he said.

Daou described their force as a mostly undisciplined civilian one under the command of Mutassem. They had no plan -- not for fleeing and certainly not for fighting.

Their convoy of more than 40 vehicles was supposed to head out before dawn when they thought anti-Gadhafi forces would be resting -- but they were too late.

At about 8 a.m. they set out to Gadhafi's birthplace but NATO jets quickly struck one of the vehicles in the convoy. The impact of the explosion triggered the airbags in the car and Gadhafi sustained a slight injury to his head or chest. Daou remembered a scene of chaos, confusion and horror.

As they tried to escape he says anti-Gadhafi fighters opened fire on their cars as they attempted to flee. Then a second airstrike by NATO followed.

"That is when we had the most casualties and destroyed vehicles, our car was hit after we got out of it. Here were many injured: someone lost an arm, another a leg, some were dead. It was terrifying," Daou recalled.

They had no option but to run; their escape on foot ended with heavy fire from fighters who surrounded them by the drainage pipes they were using to escape through.

Daou said he lost consciousness after he was hit by shrapnel in his back and does not know how Gadhafi died.

The death of Gadhafi ended the possibility of an insurgency that his loyalists could have mounted, he believes. "The regime and any power it may have had died with Gadhafi," he said.

The legacy of Libya's former dictator is now being debated. "It will be up to the historians, everyone has their opinion, some see him as a dictator who killed his own people, and there is an opposite view. History is usually written by the more powerful," he said.

Gadhafi believed he could remain in power, Daou said, adding that he and other members of the inner circle tried to convince the former strongman to leave the country since March "to leave with respect ... to save face." His sons rejected the idea, especially Saif: "It is not easy for someone who had been in power for 42 years, to believe that it is over in a minute," Daou said.

Daou said he had no idea where the former regime's most wanted men -- Saif and al-Senussi -- were. But with the International Criminal Court pursuing them, he believes they are probably still in Libya as no country will take them.

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When asked if he thought Saif, who during the conflict vowed to fight until the end, was a fighter, Daou laughed quietly and said: "I don't know -- I don't think so."

As unrest broke out in the region in January, officials in Libya were worried, Daou recalled. "There was fear and there was concern that this wave could reach Libya and the feeling was right," he said.

Daou said he was in a car with Gadhafi and al-Senussi driving back to Tripoli from Sabha in the south when news reached them about the ousting of the president of neighboring Tunisia.

He said they had a serious discussion, but the threat was not taken seriously. According to Daou, Gadhafi felt betrayed by world leaders he considered allies.

"He spoke of friends he said let him down, and did not stand by him, like (Italian Prime Minister Silvio) Berlusconi, (former British prime minister) Tony Blair, the French president (Nicolas Sarkozy) and (Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip) Erdogan," Daou said.

But a bigger betrayal came from within. Daou says there was a defense plan in place for the capital, but it was treason among the ranks of those who were tasked with securing Tripoli that led to the fall of the capital in a few days.

He said more than 3,800 troops were supposed to guard Tripoli's gates, but on the night anti-Gadhafi fighters entered the capital, fewer than 200 troops were on duty.

"There was big betrayal by the general who was in charge -- it was his brigade that was in charge. Tanks and military vehicles had no crews, watch towers were abandoned, security forces withdrew from the streets because this brigade was not present," Daou said.

With the regime he served for decades now history, Daou awaits trial by Libya's new rulers.

He told us in the presence of his interrogators he is being treated well -- but has yet to see a lawyer whom he has requested.

Daou has not visited Tripoli since August. He has no TV and does not know what it looks like now, with his former regime's green flags replaced by the new national flags and walls covered with anti-Gadhafi graffiti.

He says the revolution was the people's will and they won -- now he says they have to preserve it -- and Libya's unity.

Asked if he regretted being part of the regime, he sighed and chuckled. "Sometimes I regret everything, I have even regretted being alive, of course a person has regrets at a time in his life and looks back but unfortunately you sometimes regret when it is too late."

CNN's Raja Razek contributed to this report.

text: CNN

text: Mansour

text: Daou

text: is

text: known

text: as

text: the

text: Black

text: Box

text: of

text: Moammar

text: Gadhafi

text: 's

text: regime

text: like

text: an

text: aircraft

text: 's

text: data

text: recorder

text: he

text: knows

text: some

text: of

text: Libya

text: 's

text: darkest

text: secrets

text: And

text: as

text: one

text: of

text: Gadhafi

text: 's

text: top

text: security

text: officials

text: who

text: remained

text: at

text: his

text: side

text: until

text: the

text: final

text: hours

text: Daou

text: has

text: a

text: unique

text: insight

text: into

text: the

text: astonishing

text: downfall

text: of

text: Africa

text: 's

text: longest

text: serving

text: leader

text: Now

text: in

text: an

text: interview

text: with

text: CNN

text: he

text: describes

text: how

text: the

text: dictator

text: who

text: was

text: once

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: most

text: feared

text: leaders

text: was

text: forced

text: to

text: scavenge

text: for

text: food

text: and

text: hide

text: in

text: abandoned

text: houses

text: in

text: the

text: coastal

text: city

text: of

text: Sirte

text: He

text: was

text: very

text: worried

text: and

text: erratic

text: this

text: could

text: be

text: because

text: he

text: was

text: afraid

text: Daou

text: said

text: According

text: to

text: Daou

text: Gadhafi

text: became

text: desperate

text: to

text: travel

text: to

text: his

text: birthplace

text: the

text: village

text: of

text: Jaref

text: kilometers

text: west

text: of

text: Sirte

text: a

text: journey

text: that

text: Daou

text: feared

text: was

text: suicide

text: He

text: wanted

text: to

text: go

text: to

text: his

text: village

text: maybe

text: he

text: wanted

text: to

text: die

text: there

text: or

text: spend

text: his

text: last

text: moments

text: there

text: he

text: said

text: Finally

text: after

text: NATO

text: jets

text: attacked

text: his

text: convoy

text: Gadhafi

text: tried

text: to

text: escape

text: on

text: foot

text: through

text: drainage

text: pipes

text: but

text: was

text: caught

text: He

text: was

text: later

text: killed

text: in

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text: are

text: still

text: far

text: from

text: clear

text: Gadhafi

text: 's

text: autopsy

text: reveals

text: he

text: was

text: shot

text: in

text: head

text: Daou

text: spoke

text: as

text: he

text: awaited

text: trial

text: at

text: a

text: detention

text: facility

text: in

text: the

text: city

text: of

text: Misrata

text: which

text: bore

text: the

text: brunt

text: of

text: the

text: regime

text: 's

text: most

text: brutal

text: assault

text: during

text: the

text: conflict

text: The

text: most

text: significant

text: charges

text: he

text: faces

text: relate

text: to

text: his

text: alleged

text: role

text: in

text: the

text: Abu

text: Salim

text: prison

text: massacre

text: in

text: and

text: his

text: role

text: in

text: the

text: alleged

text: hiring

text: of

text: African

text: mercenaries

text: by

text: the

text: regime

text: during

text: the

text: conflict

text: He

text: told

text: CNN

text: he

text: had

text: no

text: role

text: in

text: those

text: events

text: The

text: interview

text: was

text: initially

text: delayed

text: by

text: a

text: few

text: hours

text: officials

text: said

text: Daou

text: was

text: being

text: interrogated

text: and

text: asked

text: CNN

text: to

text: return

text: in

text: the

text: evening

text: to

text: speak

text: to

text: him

text: The

text: CNN

text: crew

text: was

text: taken

text: to

text: the

text: bottom

text: floor

text: of

text: the

text: building

text: and

text: led

text: into

text: a

text: conference

text: room

text: where

text: Daou

text: sat

text: at

text: a

text: long

text: table

text: with

text: his

text: interrogator

text: a

text: tall

text: tough

text: looking

text: Libyan

text: man

text: Daou

text: in

text: his

text: late

text: wore

text: a

text: traditional

text: Arabic

text: gray

text: dishdasha

text: robe

text: and

text: seemed

text: to

text: be

text: in

text: good

text: health

text: During

text: the

text: hour

text: long

text: interview

text: Daou

text: described

text: how

text: he

text: had

text: been

text: in

text: the

text: same

text: car

text: as

text: Gadhafi

text: as

text: they

text: made

text: their

text: chaotic

text: escape

text: from

text: the

text: former

text: leader

text: 's

text: hometown

text: of

text: Sirte

text: Gadhafi

text: left

text: Tripoli

text: for

text: Sirte

text: on

text: August

text: according

text: to

text: Daou

text: just

text: two

text: days

text: before

text: fighters

text: seeking

text: to

text: oust

text: him

text: entered

text: the

text: capital

text: Daou

text: said

text: he

text: remained

text: in

text: Tripoli

text: until

text: it

text: became

text: clear

text: the

text: city

text: was

text: no

text: longer

text: safe

text: for

text: the

text: regime

text: 's

text: top

text: tier

text: He

text: then

text: fled

text: to

text: the

text: city

text: of

text: Bani

text: Walid

text: on

text: August

text: along

text: with

text: Gadhafi

text: 's

text: son

text: Saif

text: al

text: Islam

text: and

text: intelligence

text: chief

text: Abdullah

text: al

text: Senussi

text: He

text: stayed

text: with

text: them

text: for

text: four

text: days

text: before

text: joining

text: the

text: former

text: dictator

text: in

text: Sirte

text: Daou

text: said

text: their

text: living

text: conditions

text: went

text: from

text: bad

text: to

text: worse

text: as

text: the

text: rebels

text: tightened

text: their

text: siege

text: of

text: the

text: city

text: They

text: moved

text: around

text: abandoned

text: houses

text: every

text: three

text: to

text: four

text: days

text: he

text: said

text: surviving

text: on

text: the

text: little

text: food

text: they

text: could

text: find

text: Towards

text: the

text: end

text: they

text: had

text: no

text: power

text: water

text: or

text: communication

text: with

text: the

text: outside

text: world

text: Our

text: lives

text: had

text: turned

text: by

text: about

text: degrees

text: Gadhafi

text: spent

text: his

text: final

text: days

text: writing

text: and

text: reading

text: books

text: he

text: had

text: stacked

text: in

text: suitcases

text: Daou

text: said

text: but

text: his

text: behavior

text: became

text: more

text: unpredictable

text: As

text: fighters

text: surrounded

text: Sirte

text: Gadhafi

text: 's

text: group

text: wanted

text: to

text: leave

text: the

text: city

text: Daou

text: said

text: he

text: and

text: others

text: knew

text: that

text: if

text: they

text: did

text: not

text: leave

text: before

text: the

text: siege

text: there

text: would

text: be

text: no

text: way

text: out

text: But

text: Gadhafi

text: refused

text: to

text: leave

text: until

text: October

text: when

text: he

text: and

text: his

text: son

text: Mutassem

text: decided

text: to

text: make

text: the

text: move

text: to

text: the

text: former

text: dictator

text: 's

text: birthplace

text: Their

text: group

text: of

text: about

text: men

text: had

text: dropped

text: to

text: fewer

text: than

text: according

text: to

text: Daou

text: It

text: started

text: dropping

text: daily

text: with

text: some

text: killed

text: others

text: wounded

text: and

text: those

text: who

text: had

text: left

text: with

text: their

text: families

text: he

text: said

text: Daou

text: described

text: their

text: force

text: as

text: a

text: mostly

text: undisciplined

text: civilian

text: one

text: under

text: the

text: command

text: of

text: Mutassem

text: They

text: had

text: no

text: plan

text: not

text: for

text: fleeing

text: and

text: certainly

text: not

text: for

text: fighting

text: Their

text: convoy

text: of

text: more

text: than

text: vehicles

text: was

text: supposed

text: to

text: head

text: out

text: before

text: dawn

text: when

text: they

text: thought

text: anti

text: Gadhafi

text: forces

text: would

text: be

text: resting

text: but

text: they

text: were

text: too

text: late

text: At

text: about

text: a.m.

text: they

text: set

text: out

text: to

text: Gadhafi

text: 's

text: birthplace

text: but

text: NATO

text: jets

text: quickly

text: struck

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: vehicles

text: in

text: the

text: convoy

text: The

text: impact

text: of

text: the

text: explosion

text: triggered

text: the

text: airbags

text: in

text: the

text: car

text: and

text: Gadhafi

text: sustained

text: a

text: slight

text: injury

text: to

text: his

text: head

text: or

text: chest

text: Daou

text: remembered

text: a

text: scene

text: of

text: chaos

text: confusion

text: and

text: horror

text: As

text: they

text: tried

text: to

text: escape

text: he

text: says

text: anti

text: Gadhafi

text: fighters

text: opened

text: fire

text: on

text: their

text: cars

text: as

text: they

text: attempted

text: to

text: flee

text: Then

text: a

text: second

text: airstrike

text: by

text: NATO

text: followed

text: That

text: is

text: when

text: we

text: had

text: the

text: most

text: casualties

text: and

text: destroyed

text: vehicles

text: our

text: car

text: was

text: hit

text: after

text: we

text: got

text: out

text: of

text: it

text: Here

text: were

text: many

text: injured

text: someone

text: lost

text: an

text: arm

text: another

text: a

text: leg

text: some

text: were

text: dead

text: It

text: was

text: terrifying

text: Daou

text: recalled

text: They

text: had

text: no

text: option

text: but

text: to

text: run

text: their

text: escape

text: on

text: foot

text: ended

text: with

text: heavy

text: fire

text: from

text: fighters

text: who

text: surrounded

text: them

text: by

text: the

text: drainage

text: pipes

text: they

text: were

text: using

text: to

text: escape

text: through

text: Daou

text: said

text: he

text: lost

text: consciousness

text: after

text: he

text: was

text: hit

text: by

text: shrapnel

text: in

text: his

text: back

text: and

text: does

text: not

text: know

text: how

text: Gadhafi

text: died

text: The

text: death

text: of

text: Gadhafi

text: ended

text: the

text: possibility

text: of

text: an

text: insurgency

text: that

text: his

text: loyalists

text: could

text: have

text: mounted

text: he

text: believes

text: The

text: regime

text: and

text: any

text: power

text: it

text: may

text: have

text: had

text: died

text: with

text: Gadhafi

text: he

text: said

text: The

text: legacy

text: of

text: Libya

text: 's

text: former

text: dictator

text: is

text: now

text: being

text: debated

text: It

text: will

text: be

text: up

text: to

text: the

text: historians

text: everyone

text: has

text: their

text: opinion

text: some

text: see

text: him

text: as

text: a

text: dictator

text: who

text: killed

text: his

text: own

text: people

text: and

text: there

text: is

text: an

text: opposite

text: view

text: History

text: is

text: usually

text: written

text: by

text: the

text: more

text: powerful

text: he

text: said

text: Gadhafi

text: believed

text: he

text: could

text: remain

text: in

text: power

text: Daou

text: said

text: adding

text: that

text: he

text: and

text: other

text: members

text: of

text: the

text: inner

text: circle

text: tried

text: to

text: convince

text: the

text: former

text: strongman

text: to

text: leave

text: the

text: country

text: since

text: March

text: to

text: leave

text: with

text: respect

text: to

text: save

text: face

text: His

text: sons

text: rejected

text: the

text: idea

text: especially

text: Saif

text: It

text: is

text: not

text: easy

text: for

text: someone

text: who

text: had

text: been

text: in

text: power

text: for

text: years

text: to

text: believe

text: that

text: it

text: is

text: over

text: in

text: a

text: minute

text: Daou

text: said

text: Daou

text: said

text: he

text: had

text: no

text: idea

text: where

text: the

text: former

text: regime

text: 's

text: most

text: wanted

text: men

text: Saif

text: and

text: al

text: Senussi

text: were

text: But

text: with

text: the

text: International

text: Criminal

text: Court

text: pursuing

text: them

text: he

text: believes

text: they

text: are

text: probably

text: still

text: in

text: Libya

text: as

text: no

text: country

text: will

text: take

text: them

text: ICC

text: Mercenaries

text: may

text: try

text: to

text: help

text: Gadhafi

text: son

text: escape

text: When

text: asked

text: if

text: he

text: thought

text: Saif

text: who

text: during

text: the

text: conflict

text: vowed

text: to

text: fight

text: until

text: the

text: end

text: was

text: a

text: fighter

text: Daou

text: laughed

text: quietly

text: and

text: said

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: know

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: think

text: so

text: As

text: unrest

text: broke

text: out

text: in

text: the

text: region

text: in

text: January

text: officials

text: in

text: Libya

text: were

text: worried

text: Daou

text: recalled

text: There

text: was

text: fear

text: and

text: there

text: was

text: concern

text: that

text: this

text: wave

text: could

text: reach

text: Libya

text: and

text: the

text: feeling

text: was

text: right

text: he

text: said

text: Daou

text: said

text: he

text: was

text: in

text: a

text: car

text: with

text: Gadhafi

text: and

text: al

text: Senussi

text: driving

text: back

text: to

text: Tripoli

text: from

text: Sabha

text: in

text: the

text: south

text: when

text: news

text: reached

text: them

text: about

text: the

text: ousting

text: of

text: the

text: president

text: of

text: neighboring

text: Tunisia

text: He

text: said

text: they

text: had

text: a

text: serious

text: discussion

text: but

text: the

text: threat

text: was

text: not

text: taken

text: seriously

text: According

text: to

text: Daou

text: Gadhafi

text: felt

text: betrayed

text: by

text: world

text: leaders

text: he

text: considered

text: allies

text: He

text: spoke

text: of

text: friends

text: he

text: said

text: let

text: him

text: down

text: and

text: did

text: not

text: stand

text: by

text: him

text: like

text: Italian

text: Prime

text: Minister

text: Silvio

text: Berlusconi

text: former

text: British

text: prime

text: minister

text: Tony

text: Blair

text: the

text: French

text: president

text: Nicolas

text: Sarkozy

text: and

text: Turkish

text: Prime

text: Minister

text: Recep

text: Tayyip

text: Erdogan

text: Daou

text: said

text: But

text: a

text: bigger

text: betrayal

text: came

text: from

text: within

text: Daou

text: says

text: there

text: was

text: a

text: defense

text: plan

text: in

text: place

text: for

text: the

text: capital

text: but

text: it

text: was

text: treason

text: among

text: the

text: ranks

text: of

text: those

text: who

text: were

text: tasked

text: with

text: securing

text: Tripoli

text: that

text: led

text: to

text: the

text: fall

text: of

text: the

text: capital

text: in

text: a

text: few

text: days

text: He

text: said

text: more

text: than

text: troops

text: were

text: supposed

text: to

text: guard

text: Tripoli

text: 's

text: gates

text: but

text: on

text: the

text: night

text: anti

text: Gadhafi

text: fighters

text: entered

text: the

text: capital

text: fewer

text: than

text: troops

text: were

text: on

text: duty

text: There

text: was

text: big

text: betrayal

text: by

text: the

text: general

text: who

text: was

text: in

text: charge

text: it

text: was

text: his

text: brigade

text: that

text: was

text: in

text: charge

text: Tanks

text: and

text: military

text: vehicles

text: had

text: no

text: crews

text: watch

text: towers

text: were

text: abandoned

text: security

text: forces

text: withdrew

text: from

text: the

text: streets

text: because

text: this

text: brigade

text: was

text: not

text: present

text: Daou

text: said

text: With

text: the

text: regime

text: he

text: served

text: for

text: decades

text: now

text: history

text: Daou

text: awaits

text: trial

text: by

text: Libya

text: 's

text: new

text: rulers

text: He

text: told

text: us

text: in

text: the

text: presence

text: of

text: his

text: interrogators

text: he

text: is

text: being

text: treated

text: well

text: but

text: has

text: yet

text: to

text: see

text: a

text: lawyer

text: whom

text: he

text: has

text: requested

text: Daou

text: has

text: not

text: visited

text: Tripoli

text: since

text: August

text: He

text: has

text: no

text: TV

text: and

text: does

text: not

text: know

text: what

text: it

text: looks

text: like

text: now

text: with

text: his

text: former

text: regime

text: 's

text: green

text: flags

text: replaced

text: by

text: the

text: new

text: national

text: flags

text: and

text: walls

text: covered

text: with

text: anti

text: Gadhafi

text: graffiti

text: He

text: says

text: the

text: revolution

text: was

text: the

text: people

text: 's

text: will

text: and

text: they

text: won

text: now

text: he

text: says

text: they

text: have

text: to

text: preserve

text: it

text: and

text: Libya

text: 's

text: unity

text: Asked

text: if

text: he

text: regretted

text: being

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: regime

text: he

text: sighed

text: and

text: chuckled

text: Sometimes

text: I

text: regret

text: everything

text: I

text: have

text: even

text: regretted

text: being

text: alive

text: of

text: course

text: a

text: person

text: has

text: regrets

text: at

text: a

text: time

text: in

text: his

text: life

text: and

text: looks

text: back

text: but

text: unfortunately

text: you

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Editor's note: Peter Bergen is a fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank that promotes innovative thought from across the ideological spectrum and at New York University's Center on Law and Security. He's the author of "The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader."

Peter Bergen says deals with the Taliban could further destabilize the situation in Afghanistan.

(CNN) -- It is a longstanding clichÃ© that there is no military solution in Afghanistan, only a political one.

Linked to this is the newer, related notion, rapidly becoming a clichÃ©, that the United States should start making deals with elements of the "reconcilable" Taliban.

As with many clichÃ©s, there is some truth to both these notions, but neither of these comforting ideas are a substitute for a strategy that is connected to what is happening on the ground in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Sunday's New York Times ran an interview with President Obama in which he said that, just as the U.S. had made peace agreements with Sunni militias in Iraq, "There may be some comparable opportunities in Afghanistan and in the Pakistani region." He also cautioned that this could be "more complex" than was the case in Iraq.

It's not only going to be more complex, but doing deals with the Taliban today could further destabilize Afghanistan.

Before getting to why that is the case, let's stipulate first that there are always going to be some local commanders of the Taliban who can be bribed, coerced or otherwise persuaded to lay down their arms.

In fact, the Afghan government already has had an amnesty program in place for Taliban fighters for four years. Thousands of the Taliban already have taken advantage of the amnesty, a fact that tends to be glossed over in most of the recent discussions of the issue.

That being said, there are nine reasons why doing deals with most of the various factions of the insurgencies in Afghanistan and Pakistan that are labeled "the Taliban" are more in the realm of fantasy than a sustainable policy.

First, the Afghan government is a sovereign entity and any agreements with the Taliban must be made by it. Right now the weak and ineffectual Afghan government is in no position to negotiate with the Taliban, other than to make significant concessions of either territory or principle, or both.

Second, while Obama didn't talk about dealing with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, it is worth pointing out the Taliban leadership, including Mullah Omar, has in the past several months taken every opportunity to say that it has no interest in a deal with the Afghan government. And just last week, Mullah Omar urged the Pakistani Taliban to refocus their efforts on attacking U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Those statements should be taken at face value.

Third, Mullah Omar's intransigence is utterly predictable. He was prepared to sacrifice his regime on the point of principle that he would not hand over Osama bin Laden after 9/11. And he did. This does not suggest a Kissingerian realism about negotiations, but rather a fanatical devotion to his cause.

Fourth, the Taliban believe they may be winning in Afghanistan, and they also are confident that they are not losing, which for an insurgent movement amounts to the same thing. They see no need to negotiate today when they can get a better deal down the road.

Fifth, the Taliban leadership is largely in Pakistan. Side deals done with the Afghan Taliban will have little or no effect on the fact that the command and control of the insurgency is in another country.

Sixth, when Pakistan's government has done "peace" deals with the Taliban in the Pakistani tribal regions in 2005 and 2006 and in the northern region of Swat earlier this year, they were made following military setbacks by Pakistan's army. Those deals then allowed the militants to regroup and extend their control over greater swaths of Pakistani territory. Why would new agreements with the Taliban on either side of the Afghan-Pakistan border yield different results?

Seventh, "reconcilable" Afghan Taliban leaders have already reconciled to the government. Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, the former foreign minister who met with Afghan government officials in Saudi Arabia in September, to discuss some kind of agreement with the Harmid Karzai administration, was a foe of bin Laden's long before 9/11 and was never a hard-liner. Muttawakil has no standing today with Taliban leaders, who have been waging war now for 7Â½ years against Karzai, and who quickly denied they were in any negotiations with his government.

Eighth, while the Taliban was never a monolithic movement, it is much closer to al Qaeda today than it was before 9/11. Yes, there are local groups of the Taliban operating for purely local reasons, but the upper levels of the Taliban have morphed together ideologically and tactically with al Qaeda.

Baitullah Mehsud, for instance, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, sent suicide attackers to Spain in January 2008, according to Spanish counterterrorism officials, and sees himself as part of the global jihad. The Haqqani family, arguably the most important component of the insurgency on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border, has ties with bin Laden that date back to at least 1985, according to the Palestinian journalist Jamal Ismail, who has known the al Qaeda leader for more than two decades.

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a commander allied to the Taliban, has been close to bin Laden since at least 1989, according to militants who know both men.

Al Qaeda was founded in Pakistan two decades ago, and bin Laden has been fighting alongside Afghan mujahedeen groups since the mid-1980s. Al Qaeda Central on the Afghan/Pakistan border is much less of a "foreign" group with far deeper and older roots in the region than Al Qaeda ever was in Iraq.

The Taliban's rhetoric is now filled with references to Iraq and Palestine in a manner that mirrors bin Laden's public statements. The use of suicide attacks, improvised explosive devices and the beheadings of hostages -- all techniques that al Qaeda perfected in Iraq -- are methods that the Taliban have increasingly adopted in Afghanistan and have grown exponentially there since 2005. iReport.com: Should there be a deal with the Taliban?

One could go on listing examples of the Taliban's ideological and tactical collaboration with al Qaeda, but the larger point is that separating al Qaeda and the Taliban is not going to be as relatively simple as splintering Iraqi insurgent groups from al Qaeda in Iraq.

And ninth, unlike Al Qaeda in Iraq, which was a foreign-led group that sought to impose, unpopular Taliban-style rule on Sunni areas of Iraq, the Taliban in Pashtun areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan are not outsiders, but are often neighborhood people whose views about religion and society are rooted in the values of the Pashtun countryside.

While, of course, the U.S. should be splintering, buying off and co-opting as many elements of the Taliban as possible, American officials also need to be realistic about how much closer Al Qaeda and the Taliban have grown together in recent years, and the fact that the insurgency has mushroomed in size on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border.

Winston Churchill once observed that "it's better to jaw-jaw than to war-war." True enough. But "jaw-jaw" with the Taliban won't work if they think they are winning as they do right now.

The Obama administration has ordered 17,000 additional American soldiers to go to Afghanistan this year. As a result, two Marine brigades and a mobile, well-armored Stryker brigade will deploy into the heart of the Taliban insurgency in southern Afghanistan. Marine and Stryker brigades are not the kind of units you send in to play nice.

Those deployments strongly suggest that for all the public discussion of negotiations with the Taliban the decision already has been made that any such negotiations should precede from a position of strength rather than weakness.

These comments are, in part, based on Peter Bergen's testimonybefore the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs on March 4. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Peter Bergen.

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question: Who thinks it's winning the war?

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question: Who said Taliban is gaining more support?

answer: Peter Bergen

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