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Jim with that. the latest strikes in tripoli. what can you tell us about what nato was targeting there? >> senior u.s. officials tell us there were two norweigian fighter jets that struck th compound and u.s. military officials insist moammar gadhafi is not the target of these strikes. if in fact he was in a command and control center at the time and was killed, i dont think there would be any angst over that in this building or the white house. i can tell you nobody expects moammar gadhafi to b...

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>> my recommendation to nato and the administration is to cut the head of the snake off. go to tripoli, start bombing gadhafis inner circle, the compounds, their military headquarters in tripoli. >> meantime, a deadly crackdown now under way in another country. syria. armored vehicles and tanks storming the city as the president looks to put down the uprising in his country. to that end, hes killed at least 300 of his own countrymen in just the past 5 weeks. meanwhile, our president held a meeti...

Moammar gadhafis compound in tripoli. three buildings in the complex suffered heavy damage. four people were reportedly injured and four large bombs or missiles hit the complex early this morning. its not clear where the libyan dictator was during the attack. over the weekend, gadhafis forces stepped up their assault on rebel troops in misrata. doctors there say 32 people were killed, dozens more wounded over two days of shelling. now this weekend, u.s. senator lindsay graham of south carolina c...

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>> reporter: the one indication that he might be feeling physical pressure is that he has invited hundreds of supporters to live in presidential compounds effectively as human shields. that is something that the u.s. is clearly going to be concerned about and there have been people volunteering to go to sites that could be attacked by american or other western -- missiles or air power. so that could be an indication that he is nervous. >> our chief foreign correspondent richard engel, thank you ...

Including one of the military compounds. set the scene for us. what did you see in benghazi? >> reporter: well, we started by going to a hospital, that was the hospital that took a lot of the casualties and fatalities during the clasheses many of them with wounds to the chest, the head and the neck, according to doctors there who say clearly that the government snipers were aiming to kill, not to just wound people. the more is also full of bodies, many charred beyond recognition. we went to the ...

Going to try to take control of the situation, they made moves, they moved some of the pro mubarek protestors, those who are incredibly violent and basically accused of being hired thug, used to toss the molotov cocktails. the army has largely disappeared in tahrir square and you have the pro mubarek protestors and the protestors who began all of this, the ones who want mubarek gone, at it once again. weve seen the street battles, weve seen the same kind of attacks that we saw yesterday that are...