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Would the -- would be the enormous compound that gadhafi has called home and has also taken refuge in over time. there is a 4-story building, as i mentioned, on that property that apparently has been leveled. i want to bring in lieutenant tom mcinerny who knows libya all too well. good morning to you, fox news military analyst. its good to have you. you believe that we have opened up a can of worms. why? >> yes, i do. first of all let me say, bill, we are in a superb position militarily. we have...

Significant progress and that the u.s. and its allies have managed to create the no fly zone. are you surprised at this early stage at that progress? >> well, not at all, richard. the fact is with 100 plus tomahawk miswellssiles, the var of which weve been using, you would expect significant damage early on. im sure the global hawk is up. im sure were assessing via satellite looking at all the air defense command and control. and, of course, we just heard the report from your person on the groun...

Without having a lot of boots on the ground but you can use isr assets, the french, brits and u.s. have tactical reconnaissance platforms and strategic reconnaissance platforms in the cases of satellite imagery, overhead imagery and, of course the larger unmanned aerial vehicles like global hawk and predator. >> heather: as we wrap up here, a short time ago we heard comments from robert gates, amongst other things saying it was unanimous support for president obama, and he said that the u.s. cou...

>> judge jeanine: that, of course, being the rebel stronghold. we are now six hours into the cruz missile attack. is it true that it will take in fact hours more for us to know the full extent of the cruz missile attacks? >> reporter: i think they are starting to get some reports. one u.s. defense official says that qadaffis defense systems basically an sa 5 old soviet era defense system, ironically the same that was used by saddam hussein exactly 8 years ago, coalition forces launched their inv...

The ground. that is not yet at all clear. >> thats the look of hillary clinton commander in chief. >> im not knocking it. didnt she look strong? she looks like she knows what she is doing. she does want gadhafi there five more minutes. the president is operating on balance act. she seems to know what she is doing. im getting rid of gadhafi, much more hawk i shaish. the president on march 3 said he must go. the president did not say that today. >> he already said it. why say it again? >> with the...

We havent had to use those. thats one of the benefits of using the tomahawk cruise missiles. >> what was the purpose of the french mission over ben gauzy? >> im not here -- im not able to speak to the french mission objectives. >> total number of targets again? >> over 20 targets. >> how will you assess the damage? will you send a global hawk or salgt satellite imagery? >> it will take a little bit. after being in combat in iraq and afghanistan where we have predators, reapers, full motion video...

The u.s. military, to be under the command of foreign leaders? >> well, its not really that were going to be under the command. we might be under the operational direction or something. well never be under the command of a foreign leader. that command channel remains u.s. national. but they might be coordinating some of our air force -- it fends on what we do. when youre using tomahawk cruise missiles and classified assets like this, theyll never be coordinated through a foreign leader because t...

Surrounded baghdad built on older soviet technology but still good capability. >> two things. the bomb damage assessment, do you have a rough idea, will that take hours or days? >> i would say between hours and days. >> and is it fair -- >> its going to take us anywhere from 6 to 12 hours to get this based on assessing whether or not the sa-5 sites are down, that we can then move a global hawk in and the other national technical means to collect and then assess. >> is it fair to say that the no-...

But still good capability. (question inaudible). >> i would say hours and days. [ laughter ] >> its going to take us six to 12 hours to get it on, seas assess the sites are down and then we can move a global hawk in and other means to collect and assess. >> im not able to talk about the specifics of future operations. >> more hands as we go on. lets try to get control. chris and matthew and nathan and then we are done. >> would you consider the period we are right now to a pause in that no more ...

Told by the vice-admiral, is the first of a multi-phase operation and plan and would not reveal whether there would be more tomahawk missiles fired tonight and what the next phase will be but you can expect weapoonce th know the air defense systems are taken out, they will not put u.s. air personnel in until the defenses are taken out. >> gregg: so they may wait until sunlight, to determine the success or failure of the strikes. >> reporter: thats right. we are told it will take 6-12 hours befor...