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On what colonel gadhafi does next. we have some signals that if perhaps he pulls back or he changes his posture that the coalition posture could change as well. one official said that has to be looked at carefully. simply stopping advancing into benghazi might not be enough. he could be repositions his forces at a later date. they would want to see something stronger from colonel gadhafi indicating he was going to pull back his forces or prepare to standdown. one official that i spoke with says ...

France is shouldering its role in history. thank you. >> there are more points of view coming out of paris. we will get to our state department correspondent jill dougherty in a moment. meantime, ill let you get back to northeastern libya. we have arwa damon there. what kind of activity are you seeing where you are? >> reporter: fredricka, in the city of benghazi is where we saw the assault earlier today. so far, it seems the opposition does manage to obtain control of the city. it does appear t...

Forces. if theres a regional command and control center, maybe youd strike that first if you could isolate, and we probably know this, who is controlling the forces that are moving toward benghazi. maybe as a warning we run that up first. its clear that given the way that the u.n. security council resolution was written and secretary clintons comments that this is an effort to keep the door open and give gadhafi a chance to back out, rather than calling for his unconditional surrender. but hes o...

They too would become a target. the official says once that is done, once they open up an environment in which a no-fly zone could be performed, youll see the no-fly zone enforced in a limited part of the country. its only going to be in that northern part of libya from east to west, primarily to the west of tripoli and, obviously, to the east of benghazi. most of the flights are going to take place over libyan airspace in the area around tripoli and also in the mediterranean sea in the area aro...

That authorizes the use of force in order to rappel any effort by the libyan regime to attack benghazi, the rebels last stronghold. a lot of it is couched in language, protection of civilians, but it gives sweeping authority to place itself in between the two forces and to essentially save the rebels from defeat. >> this is so much like korea, where we went into korea under u.n. sanction, and we went to save the south koreans at pousson, at the very bottom of the peninsula, and then later, of co...

That. how concerned should the world be about that? >> its really hard to know. but his interior minister, who presumably knows him better than you or i whereby has warned about the possibility he might use biological weapons. just let them loose on civilian populations. in this situation, i mean, theres not a lot we can do at the end of the day. but one of the things we can do is make sure he doesnt have use of his air assets and of his ships. those are the ways that he would be able to attack ...

St hour from libyas second largest city, benghazi. hell be joining john king. and dramatic events unfolding at the human rights council. well explain whats going on when we come back.

Not a lot we can do at the end of the day. one thing we can do is make sure he doesnt have use of air assets and of his ships. those are the ways that he would be able to attack benghazi, for example. and i spoke to somebody hofs involved in three ships that were ordered to leave tripoli and attack benghazi. those naval commanders did not openly disobey, but in fact theyre stalling. they dont want to do that. we need to send signals to those people to encourage them. to give them safe passages t...

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Their defiant leader, moammar gadhafi. ben wedeman takes us inside. >> reporter: a few uninvited guests have popped by the gadhafis home in benghazi. the place, however, is a mess. like almost every building associated with the gadhafi regime, it was ransacked and torched by angry protesters. this is all thats left of a conference room in one of the palaces that moammar gadhafi and his sons stayed in when they visited benghazi. and if it were up to the people of the city, theyll never visit agai...