protect critical infrastructure of the libyan country. now, i know this may sound selfish, but it really is not. the libyan people will have to find a way to continue to have a growing and sustaining economy. the way to do this, to preserve the means of production, muammar gaddafi threatened to destroy on his way out anything he can, so if he sees momentum changing i wouldn t put it pass him for him to pull what saddam hussein did on the withdrawal to kuwait, to do destruction on the infrastructure. uma: to go after the oil on the ways of production, the way you put it on the ships may be targets for the military and this is something we have to be cognizant of and 20 airplanes in the french ain t going to cut it. if we re going to make this a credible no-fly zone look at military targets, infrastructure, protection of the people as we move down the path here to take cause of action. uma: mr. ambassador, do you agree that gaddafi is the not going down without a fight.
opposition figures in the eastern part of libya. and so, we know who the players are. i think that if there is a will, there certainly is a way for the united states to work with the people in libya who want to get rid of gaddafi. i m not saying we don t, i m talking about the general public. obviously the administration has been dealing in this point saying hour by hour with the opposition forces there, but certainly, we would hope that whoever comes to power if gaddafi leaves is going to be a leader that the world community can deal with. well, there s no guarantees in this situation because as has been pointed out, we have let the situation go for maybe far too long, it s become much too confused. the opposition has splintered in the last week or so with gaddafi s advances, but this is a situation where we just have to deal with it. we take situations as we find them. not as we would like them to be and the united states does have an interest in seeing
the air defense systems of colonel gaddafi and the sources tell us at the pentagon they do know the expect that operation to take very long, but again it will be tomahawks used most likely after dark, to minimize the collateral damage. if you look how they ve gone down in iraq after previous operations, that is, that they usually start after dark in order to minimize collateral damage, but again, i m being told that tomahawks will be used and targeting gaddafi s air defense systems. and i m also told that the u.s.s. enterprise the only carrier strike group in the region has not been ordered back into the mediterranean and will not be involved in the current operations over libya. uma: jennifer griffin, updated from the pentagon. and it s about eight o clock in libya, and operations after dark. we ll take another quick break and more with breaking news on libya at this hour. don t go away. [ female announcer ] it s monday, some people will stick with their old way
people having a better life. well, you heard from our reporter on the ground there, rick leventhal saying there are lots of demonstrations in the streets, dem stations of joy from the people who are very, very happy to know a change may be on the way. that doesn t surprise you. of course, i saw demonstration, with the security council you know. to use the force against gaddafi s regime, it was a demonstration every day, unfortunately, the biggest city on libya, they will not be able to go out in the street. just look and see when the people in tripoli, they have a chance to go in the street and the one who has been gaddafi and carrying his flags and these people, they go out to real demonstration for the for their freedom, they want to see gaddafi out. they want to see him and his
let s bring in the ambassador, as you re awaiting word on whether or not we re reporting from jennifer griffin it could happen later today. yeah, of course, this is possible that the waiting and that time for that and they want to see the actions and sure that after the people in libya, very alive and they re celebrating as you see. we want to see and the libyan people want to see the american action. they are very, very interested to see that. when they have gaddafi alive and the americans start hitting his posts that s when