NEW : Witnesses report gunfire , masked men blasting pro-Gadhafi music in Tripoli . Comment: The rebels aren't fighting for the regime anymore. Michele Dunne , an expert at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace , noted that the Western-educated Saif Gadhafi has pushed such reforms previously , but they have not gotten much traction . Death toll nationwide now up to at least 219 , medical sources say . Moammar Gadhafi 's son says foreign media have overstated the violence in Libya . Witnesses report that protesters aided by military have taken over Benghazi .
NEW : Witnesses report gunfire , masked men blasting pro-Gadhafi music in Tripoli . Comment: The rebels aren't fighting for the regime anymore. Death toll nationwide now up to at least 219 , medical sources say . Moammar Gadhafi 's son says foreign media have overstated the violence in Libya . Witnesses report that protesters aided by military have taken over Benghazi .