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For now, the planes taking action in libya have been french planes aimed toward the military, the government-controlled forces outside of benghazi. those are the forces that went in today, violated the cease-fire by firing on benghazi. but the libyan government says it was not responsible for that firing. general mccafferty, this would be a great time to weigh in on the plans as were getting them from the pentagon. >> im sure they will execute it. the brits and the french are extremely competent...

It was action that was spearheaded by the ferrrench. they were the hawks from the get-go and recognized libyan rebels as being able to talk for the libyan people and then we saw the united nations go forward with the resolution. ive just received in, from the news wires now, russia saying it regrets the decision by western powers to take military action in libya. is that surprising to you? >> no. what surprised me is that the french and i mean the russians and the chinese abstained and the u.n. ...

States. we will support an international coalition as it takes all necessary measures to enforce the terms of resolution 1973. as you may know, french planes are already in the skies above benghazi. now, america has unique capabilities and we will bring them to bear to help our european and canadian allies and arab partners stop further violence against civilians including through the effective implementation of a no fly zone. as president obama said, the united states will not deploy ground tro...

International intervention that the rebels would quickly lose all of benghazi. the rebels say now they have, however, fought off gadhafis forces and managed after a very difficult day with maybe -- maybe 30 people killed, perhaps more, in benghazi, itself. theyve managed to hold on to the city but aside from the people of benghazi, aside from the rebels, there are thousands of ordinary people who now see themselves facing an aggressive army by gadhafi facing rebel movement and now international ...

We are also anticipating a statement from president obama on libya. the president is in brazil right now expected to talk a little bit about libya. he did address it earlier today in his news conference with brazils president but again, we are expecting to hear from him shortly and when we do well take that for you live. secretary of state hillary clinton has been meeting throughout the day with nato allies in paris. shes expected to return to washington tonight and secretary clinton addressed t...

Making a decision saying, no. well recognize the rebel leaders as the government representatives in libya. well cut off all contact with moammar gadhafi and his folks. who is in charge? is sarkozy in charge of this action? >> well, in theory, nato is in charge i would think. but that would require the united nations to have given command to nato. i dont think that its done that yet. but outside of nato and the arab countries there doesnt seem to be anybody else involved. its interesting. yesterd...

So it is a coalition of countries. >> thank you so much for the reporting there from london. we continue to keep our eye on as you describe it the fast moving developments in libya and retired general barry mccaffery joins us with his perspective on how this might influence the actions of gadhafis forces right after a quick break. my hair flowing with softness and shine. as nature intended. [ female announcer ] someones been doing the herbal! the new herbal essences collections.

That may mean for instance the french today took the lead. they were the first ones to fire on libyan targets. but the allied powers are taking what they call the necessary steps to protect these libyan civilians. gadhafi supporters again attacked rebels near the city of benghazi, violating the cease-fire. the government denied that it was behind those attacks today but french war planes have since destroyed about four tanks believed to have been involved in this mornings assault. no hostile fir...

Want to be involved right now. theres a lot of egyptians inside of libya trying to get back. same with tunisia. but in talking with some military analysts they both -- many of them said to me that egypt and saudi arabia have the best air force pilots of the arab world and members of the arab league so if youre looking for quality in your military participation you want those two countries air forces involved. that said, that isnt the case right now but they still want the uae and qatar and some ...

Sure the 31 some odd surface-to-air missile batteries. youve got 18 some odd radar sites. theres another 500 anti-aircraft guns around the country. so im sure theyll try and open it up to the french and brits to be the primary wings overhead. >> let me show you the map that shows our war ships in the mediterranean where theyre positioned at this point. we have five of them in the mediterranean sea. if were launching missiles at libya what might be the targets? >> well, again, you sort of outline...