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Is he tuck his tanks in with the population centers and in order to go after those, he puts his population at risk. this is the type of guy that we are trying to remove. what is really important for us to understand is we have a no-fly zone and an air to ground attack mission the coalition does. what we have now is a commander in chief is we need to remove gadhafi. >> as we saw in iraq for many years before the latest intervention, a no-fly zen in the north and the south didnt remove saddam huss...

Other from another nation. its important to realize the nature of what gadhafi is doing is he tuck his tanks in with the population centers and in order to go after those, he puts his population at risk. this is the type of guy that we are trying to remove. what is really important for us to understand is we have a no-fly zone and an air to ground attack mission the coalition does. what we have now is is we need gadhafi. >> as we saw in iraq for many years before the latest intervention, a no-fl...

Inflict on gadhafi some sort of no drive zone in order to stop his forces were ending benghazi. is ground attack heading eastward to benghazi will be stopped by u.n. planes? >> well, if you put -- i dont know if theyre going to be flying with the u.n. insignia but they may be british and french planes with the support of american backup logistics. >> wow. right now to on the phone to former ambassador. let me ask you this, it seems to me as i just said to marc, this looks like we are turning our...

Emplacements. >> we are in our country, with our people, and we arent afraid. >> reporter: people in benghazi are cheering this united nations resolution because theyre afraid of your fathers forces. >> of course not. we are receiving every day on our tv hundreds of calls from benghazi. every day people are crying saying please come and liberate us from this nightmare, from those terrorists. people are not happy there. >> that was abcs christiane amanpour. and in libya crowds are still gathere...

Where there are a number of destroyers, submarines, surface ships and a command ship. from the air the militarys plan call for using drones and ground attack planes. stay with abc news throughout the morning and day as we monitor the tension in libya. well have live updates on "good morning america" and also "america this morning" and also much more of saif gadhafis exclusive interview coming up. and now to our other breaking story this friday morning. the newest developments from japan. u.s. ...

Quote, all necessary measures it to protect civilians in libya. no country opposed it. china, russia and three other countries abstained. were joined by mark ginsburg, former ambassador to morocco. mark, my friend, it looks like the language here is stronger and more suggestive of a war front. are we going to stop gadhafi from taking bghazi? >> it looks like it. it looks like an initial wave of british and frieench air force power supported by probably the logistic of qa ittar, jordan an essenti...

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>> the russian defense ministry took a page from the pentagons playbook. saying it has grounds to believe the u.s. is not always hitting terrorist tarring targets in syria. as russian president vladimir putin celebrated his 63rd birthday in moscow. . >> translator: of course its too early to sum up the results, but what has been done so far certainly deserves high praise. >> the russians have moved gunships to homes, along with rocket launchers and artillery. the u.s. believes that the russians ...

Were moved to homes, a hundred miles east of the air base on the mediterranean coast. along with other artillery. officials believe they could launch a ground attack against opposition forces. today at a press conference in italy, ash carter criticized the russian escalatinescalating. >> despite what the russians say we have not agreed to cooperate we have not agreed to cooperate with russia. >> reporter: what is new today is for the first time the russians have evidence they are firing into isi...

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