Attack Inside Ajdabiya News Today

Very sort of mixed message. theyre joining the fight halfway.o your own hands behind your back, and when youre on the frontlines, you realize completely that this incredible western support is so appreciated and so crucial. im in benghazi now. this city probably would have been overrun and there would have been massacres here if you speak to almost anyone if gadhafis forces had gotten in. the people are very happy about that. then you go to ajdabiya where the rebels probably wouldnt have gotten ...

Libya. >> reporter: the road outside benghazi today is a graveyard of gadhafis armored vehicles, destroyed by western air strikes. after an hour and a half driving south flanked by desert, we reached the rebels front line. there are no trenches or sandbags, just men poorly armed that want to fight. the frontline is about five miles outside the town of ajdabiya. rebels watch with binoculars, but cant advance. outgunned, rebels say they are killed whenever they approach gadhafis forces. we have li...

The city itself, because theres a rebel movement in ajdabiya. because of the nature of the support going on now, the airplanes in the sky wont attack inside ajdabiya because it is in a populated area. you need close air support, you need coordination, you need more precise targeting for that, and that usually means at least somebody on the ground. >> richard, what kind of pressure do you think it would take to get gadhafi himself to either give up or leave? theyre not talking explicitly about re...

Support going on now, the airplanes in the sky wont attack inside ajdabiya because it is in a populated area. you need close air support, you need coordination, you need more precise targeting for that, and that usually means at least somebody on the ground. >> richard, what kind of pressure do you think it would take to get gadhafi himself to either give up or leave? theyre not talking explicitly about regime change as the goal of this military operation, they say it is not, thats one way to en...

Rstl sillteyes fhtg atar isodsikamicwas evytng tht be unless you get really involved, its not going to be quick, and that seems to be the biggest draw back, its the timing. if you keep doing this, flying over the sky, and if you see a tank, taking it out, that helps certainly, and it saved benghazi. but what gadhafi did and his troops did, which i think anybody who would be with the tank command would do rationally, you would pull troops back into another area. if you are commanding the rachel m...

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