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We were talking to ben wedeman about that yesterday morning as it was happening. it is the second reported case of friendly fire in a week in libya. carter ham, the u.s. general who led the libya air campaign before nato took over, says the situation on the ground is becoming a stalemate. hamm telling a u.s. senate hearing that the u.s. may consider sending troops into libya with an international ground force that could help out the rebels. president obama of course said he would not put u.s. ...

Acceptable outcome of the conflict in libya. >> my personal opinion, that is not the preferred solution. >> reporter: in eastern libya, no solution means no fighting. shortly after the air strikes, gadhafi hit the gates at ajdabya, furthest east his troops have been. this is what theyre doing over and over again. instead of digging in and fighting back, they turn and run. rebels fired back at the center of town. poorly guided rockets aimed at an enemy they couldnt even see. >> that was nbcs step...

Morning" well have the very latest. and "good morning america." and at any time around the clock on abcnews.com. it was a horrible scene at an elementary school in rio de janeiro, brazil. these are videos as frightened students run as a gunman is roaming the hallways. he eventually killed 12 students shooting them execution-style at point blank range. the gunman then killed himself. police say he left a rambling suicide note. the commander that led the military mission in libya before nato t...

33 past the hour. welcome back to "morning joe." a quick look at the news. the army commander who led the operation in libya made explosive comments at yesterdays arms services committee hearing. general carter ham said the u.s. may consider sending troops into libya with an international ground force to give the rebels more help. his remarks came as nato air strikes reportedly killed at least five rebel fighters. today, a nato official issued no apology for the strikes but acknowledged they may...

Over libya, but they will be jamming gadhafis military frequencies, collecting intelligence and also refuelling other fighter jets but not engaging in the strike missions themselves. on the ground there is something of a stalemate emerging between the rebels and gadhafis troops. the rebels, because they have the ongoing nato air support are protected. they cant lose. they are not going to be able to be driven back in benghazi, but without significant ground force, rebel troops they havent been a...

Couple weeks ago, so what about any kind of training also? >> well, the most important aspect is the training. you just hit the nail on the head. >> yeah. >> weapons are important. training is far more important, but the time domain doesnt allow for training to take place, and then to answer your first question there are no guarantees. i mean, the only way that you could ensure that you can minimize the risk is you have to have a ground force on the ground in libya to assure the separation and m...

Rebels can be laid on the coalition. >> if you come over here, that had been success that the coalitiowas celebrating and that the opposition was celebrating. this was them, theyre the green, they were moving this way, just yesterday. yesterday they had their strongholds in benghazi, they had taken back ras lanuf, bin jawad. they were going to take sirte, and go towards tripoli. but this is what happened in the last 24 hours. the regime coming this way. its one day. you cant score a battle in on...

President tomorrow night will be dramatically clearer than he has been up to now. i hope the president will say, first of all, he is consulting the u.s. congress not just the arab league and the united nations. i hope he will say second that it is clear that the qaddafi dictatorship has to leave and we are prepared to do whatever it takes to make sure that the qaddafi leadership leaves. >> chris: when you say whatever is takes, should we strike at qaddafi? >> yes, once you engaged air power use ...

Willing to do. >> i hope the president will be dramatically clearer than he has to now, i hope hell say hes consulting the congress not just the arab league and the u.n. and hope hell say second it is clear the qaddafi dictatorship has to leave and we are prepared to do whatever it takes to make sure that he leaves -- >> whatever it takes. >> i think it means dishes should we strike at him? >> yes. with -- once you engage air power, use it in its most effective way. you dont need to send in grou...

Nato operation, nonnato members participating. does it make sense to do what they are doing in afghanistan in libya? >> i think it can be looked at. but one of the challenges here is that i havent seen the discussion of ground forces -- nato ground force there is as we have in afghanistan. >> they dont want to send -- the united states -- the president says no u.s. ground troop wills go in. >> so i think you need to understand as you come up with the command and control arrangement that you will...