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Have all used in recent days to fly missions into libya to enforce the no-fly zone and launch those strikes. theres a big, big debate about how this alliance should move going forward. the president spoke to the british prime minister and the french president. aides say some progress is made on figuring out just how the operation should be managed going forward. the united states and britain, they want nato to take command, but france objects to that and says key arab nations also want a differe...

Forward in the direction of tripoli. however, its well over 400 miles between brega and the libya capital. >> let me ask you this, ben, what is likely to happen now? we know that theres this discussion about the u.s. military, anti-gadhafi forces asking the u.s. military to enforce a no-fly zone over libya. thats obviously under some debate here in washington. were going to talk about that in a few minutes. what are their options, those forces fighting gadhafi and the government? >> reporter: we...

And heading to the front and attacking the libyan armed forces in a way that in that case, it doesnt really look like a war. its something else. but they dont yet have a command structure that allows them to have sort of an organized logical assault on the enemy. its all fairly chaotic. but as we saw, it does yield results. they were able to drive the tripoli forces out of brega. of course, after a day-long fighting. but they are having an effect even though they still are -- >> you know, ben, t...

>> 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 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...

About a possible exit strategy for members of the qaddafi family or whether they do concern possible cease fire negotiations. >> with the rebels it seems like it is one step forward and two steps back. why have they not been able to hold on to any of their gains in the field? >> for the past several days, several steps back for the rebels. much of the fighting now around the city of braga. mainly had trouble because they lack a command structure. mainly small groups of rebels fighting together. ...

Take great care not to be political or even give the perception of being political, and to have real weight behind his words. something very specific after all these days. it is true that he was slow on the uptake, but there is still as james keeps saying, were only a third of the way through this. he is there now. he could do this. the problem is what is it in his control to do? there are over a dozen agencies and departments all tripping over each other. there is still not a unified command st...

Mcchrystal actually did very well, as well. but also the leaders of the nato allies that are engaged in the conflict and hes very media savvy, as im sure youre well aware. all these things will come into play, as well as his good relations with our own government. >> picking up on the point mik made, though, one thing he will have to look at is who is going to surround himself with and yerl i was talking to colonel jack jacobsen and i said, jack, if one thing was made clear with this rolling sto...

Osama bin laden. he says its been years since the u.s. has had good leads on the terrorists leaders whereabouts. >> hes in tribal areas in pakistan. the terrain is difficult and obviously has tremendous security around him. >> juliet: however, panetta says the cia has been successful in disrupting the command structure for al-qaeda and the taliban. malini wilkes reports from washington. >> the cia director thinks that the taliban and afghanistan is getting both stronger and weaker. in a rare sun...

Went south you have pensacola beach and saw no vessels near the coast of florida. came back, i did press and raised this issue. the governor said im going to meet with the president tomorrow, on friday. we heard back from admiral allen they were going to produce 20 vessels, i dont know why just 20. i heard monday they were going to produce them and it would take a couple of weeks. as this oil keeps coming towards florida and we see the sheen and so forth out there, we should have vessels in rese...

>> reporter: that is what we heard from senator ben nelson who held a news conference down the road. bill nelson says they need to fix the command structure and the unified command. the collaboration between the u.s. government and bp. to get the ships out here. there are no skimmers out there. what bill nelson is saying and others the governor in alabama and others in florida, there needs to be a fleet of skimmers out there off quite a ways offshore and in shore stopping that oil before it hits...