Muammar Gaddafi's forces have all kinds of aircraft to tell them where the rebels are, but in military terms, the rebels are blind.
If there are 10 tanks or 100 stationed over the next rise, it's impossible to say.
The only intelligence the rebels have is what they can see and hear. The rest is rumour.
Scattered in plain view along the highway, the rebels have nowhere to hide when a government fighter jet can be heard circling overhead. Do they scream, shoot, panic, run in all directions? At Ras Lanuf on Monday afternoon, it was all of the above.
That the planes would occasionally drop explosives either side of the highway further added to the general atmosphere of hysteria.
At 4.08pm on Monday, I didn't hear the fighter jet, let alone see it. But the sound of the bomb it dropped about two kilometres up the road was menacing."
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