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He will settle his accounts with them. >> youre saying hes not going to do it because he knows that would prompt intervention. >> hell kill them. these people are going to vanish. remember when we started doing this story, i said this man is a warden. this to him was a prison riot. he will do what them what he needs to do with them much later. the arguments of nato, they wreak of such cowardess. they say we cant do it because there has to be need. is this not need in zawiya and elsewhere? there ...

Reporter into the city after the battle. opposition forces absorb blow after blow in city after city, there are those in a position it to see help. nato suggesting there isnt jet a good reason to act, saying there must be a "demonstrable need." the opposition battling streets by street, block by block to hold on to mizurata would argue this is demonstrable need. [ gunfire ] this video just in to cnn. more at the top of the hour. well show how militarily a no-fly zone could be implemented. talk...

Last night we began with a reporter who escaped from the surrounded city of zawiya. they said a massacre was taking place. tonight, the deed is done. the city has fallen and gadhafis forces are trying to hide evidence of what went on there, and trying to hunt down those who fought them. the libyan dictatorship is gaining ground, not just in zawiya but the east, as well. and the dictators son, confident and cool, now threatens to crush the opposition without mercy. the world continues to watch. n...

Doctors, were not armed. we are totally unarmed doctors. all of us came to brega and ras lanuf just to help people. we even help the -- i mean, myself two days back, ive been hit trying to help one of the forces of gadhafi. i mean, i was trying to help a soldier, and my own ambulance has been hit. we had to go to another vehicle to go with that injured man. >> when you hear that nato met today and they say theyre still waiting for events on the ground, theyre still watching whats happening, they...

But if the need were great enough, they could be embarrassed and do it. in 1999 -- or 1998, we had a u.n. security council resolution authorizing humanitarian action in kosovo, which later was the legal basis for nato action in 1999 in kosovo. its not impossible. it could be done. it hasnt been done. and the problem is that gadhafis moving this show forward. hes got the momentum on the ground, as retired general jim clapper, our director of national intelligence said today. if you look at the ba...

The threshold at which nato is impelled to take action. >> is it possible to get the u.n. to take action? if youre passing the buck to the u.n., and you have russia and china who are not likely to authorize intervention in a country like libya, arent you stuck then? >> well, there is a problem with russia and china, no doubt about it. but if the need were great enough, they could be embarrassed and do it. in 1999 -- or 199, we had a u.n. security council resolution authorizing humanitarian actio...

Work, any decision by nato to do that, to implement a no-fly zone, days, probably weeks away. anderson? >> its not clear that the opposition has weeks. joining us live from chicago, former nato supreme allied commander general wesley clark. and here in new york, professor fouad ajami, senior fellow at the hoover institution. fouad, nato is saying there needs to be -- three criteria met for a no-fly zone. number one is demonstratable need. you say gadhafi is smart and hes not going to do a srebre...

The hoover institution. fouad, nato is saying there needs to be -- three criteria met for a no-fly zone. number one is demonstrable need. some would say killing civilians in a town like zawiya is a demonstrable need. you say gadhafi is smart and hes not going to do a srebrenica style massacre. that would force the international community to get involved. >> this man is a jackal, he knows what hes doing. you dont rule for 42 years and play the western democracies the way hes played them and be a ...

Telling us in every way they can, we want rescue and we say we cant because well offend you if we rescue this. >> wesley clark, is there a need, in your opinion? >> i think theres certainly the united states would like to be engaged on the side of emerging democracy in the region. the question is how to do it most effectively. this is a civil war. theres clearly a right and wrong side as far as were concerned morally and democratically in this. theres no love loss for gadhafi. on the other hand,...

It has when it comes to freezing libyan assets. as for doing what the libyan opposition says it needs most now, and most urgently, namely a no-fly zone, nato is reviewing options. members making no decisions today, possibly doing nothing until monday and putting tight conditions on military action. >> firstly, there must be a -- a -- a demonstrable need. secondly, there must be a clear legal basis. and thirdly, a strong reason or support. >> well talk tonight about that no-fly zone with general ...