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Then you heard secretary clinton do a roll call of arab leaders that participated in the paris conference today in order to make sure that they saw not only an international face on this but a nonwestern face on this. and we knew no, militarily the assets of some arab countries include the uae in qatar with a little military support from jordan. not from egypt right now. they have their own issues to deal with including the fact that they are voting on a new constitution today and nothing from t...

How serious are the injuries that youre seeing? >> yeah, everyone has been talking about these rebel ons in the middle east as if they are a domino, that every country is totally, you know, equivalent and that what happened in egypt was exactly what was happening in libya. completely different situations. in egypt, in tahrir square just down the street there were students coming out and there were calls by the international community and by president obama for the army not to attack legitimate c...

Military action that the situation becomes more dire for refugees trying to get out of libya. many of them are trying to get into egypt. where do things stand? >> reporter: thousands of people have been coming into egypt not just today or over the last 48 hours but since this conflict began. egypt has been remarkably open, allowing people to come in. tunisia on the opposite side of libya has been incredibly welcoming to the refugees. so there was a potential for a major refugee crisis. so far it...

Ability and egypt is going through a revolution. they just voted on an amendment to the constitution just today. and its hard to imagine theyll make that kind of decision. so frankly, the politics that are important, and i think thats really what the international community needed. >> the french foreign minister said that military action in libya is going to continue until moammar gadhafi complies with u.n. security councils resolutions. we have now seen the french take action. america as weve j...

Arent allowing those same kind of movements to take place in their own countries. >> and what do the rebels want out of all of this? what is their ultimate goal? >> the rebels in libya clearly want to topple gadhafis regime and they felt that they were losing, that they had lost momentum. this has been going on for five weeks now. in the first few weeks i was talking to the rebels they thought it was just a matter of days before they would be crossing the open desert and rolling triumphantly in ...

The french have taken the first action targeting tanks or armored vehicles there in libya and the response on the part of rebels in benghazi has been cheers. nbcs chief foreign correspondent richard edge is in cairo now. what do the rebels really need to regain an upper hand? >> well, that is a big question. the rebels certainly are welcoming what happened today. they thought in the early hours that benghazi was going to be overwhelmed, that their revolt would effectively be snuffed out by gadha...

So his armor has to get into the states some point. otherwise france and the brits, very capable air forces will start picking them off. one of the other questions in my mind is who would imagine that the saudis would actively intervene and say, even though the libyans tried to kill their king, would actively intervene in another arab country to promote the cause of liberty? same thing goes for the egyptian military. you know, we have to see what gadhafi does. he may well plunge right into these...

He said they can be effective and at least influential in what develops afterwards. the secretary of state said today, richard, that arab participation in the action in libya is absolutely crucial. general mccaffery had pointed out there is no arab participation at least when it comes to action. i mean, take for instance egypt which mccaffery called out by name. is there any way theyre in a position to contribute right now? >> ah, they absolutely would be in a way to contribute. im in egypt, ive...

Going to have an election i hope that will lead to an elected government, the campaign is going to open up and you know the criticism of american foreign policy and western foreign policy on issues unrelated to libya are going to be there and that obviously is going to have an impact on what else the u.s. is doing in the region. >> it seems that the u.s. the ut in the middle east is always a hot political topic no matter what happens to be going on internally in countries across the middle east....

Is the first stop on his three-nation tour of latin america. >> the people of libya must be protected and in the absence of an immediate end to the violence against civilians, our coalition is prepared to act. and act with urgency. >> the latest from benghazi shows tanks approaching the city now have stopped and thick, black smoke is rising from the rebel stronghold. the international red cross is calling on all sides to avoid civilian populations and to respect international humanitarian law. a...