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Gaddafi to be held accountable. those are sentiments, those are not military goals. i dont see how people who watched the president yesterday, who watched the president today can walk away and say, those are what american interests in libya are and what we want to accomplish and our plan. the president has failed to articulate the reason were going to war and make no mistake, were going to war even though several limitati limitations are put on-- >> in terms of though ground troops being on the ...

Advice to stay off the desert road where there were fears that gaddafis army would be massing. the last report from within the city limits, gaddafi troops may have retreated south of the city and were hearing about the french fighter jets and other n.a.t.o. aircraft in the skies, giving the people here a lot of hope, jamie. >> jamie: we sure hope so. the situation is so fluid, as president-- or actually as hillary rodham clinton, secretary of state has said and the president as well, flew in is ...

And givers you an idea what things have been like in that country all that time and beforehand. 1981 when gaddafi laid claim to a huge chunk of gulf of sidra and the 6th fleet flew over the imagery line that gaddafi called the line of death and when challenged our navy ended up having to sink two of their ships and couple months after that, president reagan ordered powerful air strikes, very powerful against libya days after a bomb blast at labelle nightclub to berlin killed two american service...

Know at that were not using ground forces. and if they were, they would restructure in fear of shock and awe and weve taken that off the table without having to. in terms of what we can do the secretary is right. we have a lot of capabilities without putting troops. and one is we can collect as much information as we can about the disposition of libyan forces and have ways to channel that, particularly looking at libyans ready for attack and we have electronic warfare we can follow for the coali...

Communitycation-wise. at the end of the day, gaddafi has to be more worried about who is going to oppose his forces straits on and he knows now that the u.s. is not. >> jamie: well, lets talk about the reports now that the u.s. is preparing missiles. what is your impression? >> well. >> jamie: what does that mean? that does not give pause to muammar gaddafi. >> absolutely it does, jamie, but those missiles will be prepared to go after the anti-aircraft sites he has. because that no-fly zone mean...

Its too late. is it really too late to step in and try to quell the or as hillary rodham clinton said, to stop gaddafi from committing unspeakable atrocities? >> well, again, thats certainly something we dont want to happen as far as monstrosities as to the libyan people. if we are he going to war and despite the conditions put in place essentially were making that decision, we need a coherent goal and i think a coherent goal, helping the rebels turn the tide and march on tripoli and defeat gadd...

Soviet built armor in benghazi. when we went to bed gaddafis teams said they would not move their soldiers and armor into the city and this morning we saw evidence they did. they were striking opposition and also civilian targets and the rebels have some armor of their own and we saw one of the heavily armored tanks, from the libyan tanks turn around and return fire and we also saw many, many residents of benghazi getting in their vehicles and spleeg the city. there was one basic exit points alo...

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To defy the world. his attacks on civilians go on. today we have been monitoring the troubling reports of fighting around and within benghazi itself. as president obama said, we have every reason to fear left uncheck gaddafi will commit unspeakable atrocities. >> kelly: secretary of state hillary clinton. molly henneberg is joining us live from washington the. and holly, how does secretary clinton describe. >> she didnt give military details, she is the top diplomate. and further delay on libya ...

Reporting live from washington. >> jamie: and french president sarkozy says his nation fighter jets are blocking attacks on the city of benghazi and gaddafis forces planned to invade the rebel strong hold before the international forces stepped in. so far, opposition forces are holding on. theyre shooting down this libyan plane that one witness claims was targeting the benghazi military barracks. rick leventhal has seen it all and is streaming live from eastern libya, we wont give your location,...