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Theres no indication gadhafi or senior members of his family were in this building that was completely destroyed. footage from the ground shows a building used as private office for gadhafi and some of his top aides was destroyed in what appears to be the most significant strike on the sprawling gadhafi compound, command structure, almost like a little military base within the center of tripoli itself, the biggest one i can remember since this conflict began on gadhafis compound. >> i know youre...

Because of the oil refinery. what we have seen over the last ten days to two weeks is this back and forth indecisive fighting and its not really leading anywhere. both sides have their own rebel. they dont really have command, a command structure. they dont have much in the waive communications. they dont have much in the way of training. gadhafis forces are better trained, better armed, better led. however, they have to deal with the fact that their supply lines, and in fact their frontline tro...

>> reporter: chris its a matter of leadership for the rebels. they are lacking the command structure they are outnumbered 10-1. among the fighters, most are in small groups of sometimes a new men or a dozen who know each other from the village. they are not communicating with each other and they dont have the communication gear in some cases. the weapons are wrong. gaddafi forces have longer range and the rebels have small arms. that is a problem. weve seen real adaptation in the gaddafi governm...

Activities, its bombings of his forces. so i think what hes going to try to do is hes going to try to proceed sect sert and west and cede maybe the western part of the country until everybody gets bored and goes away and then deal with it later. >> gregg: president obama has said were not going to kill gadhafi. could nato? >> i think nato could. there are things inside the united states law and procedures where we have not, after our incidents in south america, 20, 30 years ago, we dont assassin...

They are lacking the command structure they are outnumbered 10-1. among the fighters, most are in small groups of sometimes a new men or a dozen who know each other from the village. they are not communicating with each other and they dont have the communication gear in some cases. the weapons are wrong. gaddafi forces have longer range and the rebels have small arms. that is a problem. weve seen real adaptation in the gaddafi government forces. they are attacking guerilla tactics and getting in...

Of what were seeing, is there any sense there is an effort to impose any command structure on what remains of the opposition forces? obviously they see theyre going in the wrong direction. is anybody in the transitional government saying, fellows, we need a new game plan, this individual will now be in charge? any effort to regroup and do something different? >> reporter: well, we know theres lots of statements coming out of officials in benghazi about the importance of putting up a defensive po...

The air and wasting all your ammunition. and yet we still see them doing that all the time. why? >> reporter: well, ive seen this i cant tell you how many times. ive seen former officers in the libyan army, professional soldiers, who have tried to tell the young men at the front that they shouldnt waste their ammunition, that they should take up defensive positions and shouldnt assume theyre always going to be moving forward. but by and large, these people are ignored, largely because there is n...

How to act, how to function in a battlefield environment. >> we talked about this before, but ben, has anybody -- people im sure, some people said to them, dont just keep firing in the air and wasting all your ammunition. and yet we still see them doing that all the time. why? >> reporter: well, ive seen this i cant tell you how many times. ive seen former officers in the libyan army, professional soldiers, who have tried to tell the young men at the front that they shouldnt waste their ammuniti...

>> the harsh reality of the battlefield is intervening the best laid plans never go as you want. what were seeing is an opposition force being routed. we are hearing there are fewer than a thousand total in the field there who they have no arms, no command structure, no intelligence and theyre simply in retreat and yet at the same time were finding out the president sent the cia in and folks in the white house must be scratching their heads saying now what? how can we salvage what is increasingl...

Ammunition. and yet we still see them doing that all the time. why? >> reporter: well, ive seen this -- i cant tell you how many times. ive seen former officers in the lubi i libyan professionals, who have tried to tell young men they shouldnt waste their ammunition, that they should take up defensive positions and shouldnt assume theyre always going to be moving forward. but by and large, these people are ignored, largely because there is no command structure. there are no officers really. its ...