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Breaking news this hour, the united states and its allies are unleashing more military might to try to stop moammar gadhafis troops and their bloody assault against rebels and civilians. defense secretary robert gates revealing a short while ago that armed predator drone are now part of the u.s. arsenal in libya. >> now, the president has said that where we have some unique capabilities, he is willing to use those and, in fact, he has approved the use of predators. and i think that today may hav...

Strikes against targets critical to gadhafis forces. we want to bring in our senior international correspondent nic robertson, logged many days and weeks covering the conflict in libya. he is with us now nic, are the u.s. drones going to make a difference in this fight? >> reporter: they are. they can fly lower, they can fly more safely, full, because they are not putting physical pilot at risk, so they will be able to see gadhafis military hardware on the ground. they can fly slower. so we will...

They need to operate out of an airfield that is not too far awake does this mean malta? does this mean where nato aircraft are operating out of in the south ofitily? does this mean that they have got an airfield that they can use perhaps in the eastern part, the rebel-controlled part of libya? thats very, very unlikely, but or is it possibly egypt? that sun likely. they need to be relatively close. that is the important thing. i think the political safety this gives president obama, you are less...