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Back from washington. >> reporter: it is almost 25 years since ronald reagan called muammar qaddafi the mad dog of the middle east and that gives you a good idea of what things have been like in that country, for all of this time and, even beforehand. it was 1981. when he laid claim to a big chunk of the gulf of sidra, an american f-14, ended up having to shoot down two libyan fighter jets in self-defense. five years later, our 6th fleet sailed over the imaginary line in the same gulf of sidra. ...

Whether that is directed at targets and there are times we are hearing anti-aircraft fire and people honking their horns and the message we are getting from the qaddafi leadership is one of defiance, the colonel a short time ago, voice-only, no picture of him, unusually, appeared on state television and used all of the buzzwords and said this is an attack by colonialists on libya and attack by zionists and by crusaders against libya and also said hed open up his arms depots, and pass out arms to...

Our participation escalated? >> i think it is how you measure the level of participation. the kinetic impact of the cruise missiles should not be underestimated but what you will see, i think is the visible presence of france, u.k. and others, we talked about the united arab emirates and qatar in terms of their air support and very much of a powerful impact in dstriking key command and control targets within libya and the flag youll see in terms of the enforcements of the know fly zone will not ...

You hearing anything, mike, about how long the u.s. involvement will go in all of this? >> reporter: reading between the lines, and talking with key advisors, the sense you get is well use our military might up front and essentially bomb the heck out of a lot of key strategic targets in libya and the hope is the coalition allies will take over, perhaps some in the arab world, friendly nations in the arab world, also our european allies, but, all indications are while they dont want to give a tim...

The only thing i have seen that he is for, right now, is for israel to stop building more settlements and i dont know what his policy is, do you? can you define it? >> rick: is that a fair point. >> no, the fact is john kerry was the first one out there, saying no-fly zone in libya and i didnt see the republicans saying that, and they were hiding somewhere else. and he went out there, first, hillary clinton followed and now, barack obama has an international coalition doing exactly that thing, a...

Something like this happens, and having it go over the weekend, it is a whole different story and now you have time to digest this. >> rick: obviously i dont think anyone suggests the president or the coalition purposely timed it to fall at a time when maybe the markets went go berserk and monday morning when trading restarts what do you think investors should be looking for? >> theres a couple of factors and a lot of things will be at work. one, theres a lot of people, with access to 401(k) pla...

Operations underway and im not scorning it in the least. it is terrific, but, again, we are going all around the problem, and not going at the heart of the problem which is qaddafi and, which you also pointed out, he is harder to get now, because hell duck and be underground, moving and in bunkers, but, nonetheless, the core of the problem, is not the tank driver, or the artillerymen firing on benghazi though it is important to get them, the core of the problem is muammar qaddafi, arch terrorist...

The context in which this intervention can take place and using all necessary measures which is very important in u.n. language, that effectively gives a license to the international community to do what it needs to do. they will have to focus on what happens next. in terms of the political process, of making sure the libyan people and elements in the libyan government see there is a future to libya beyond the qaddafi regime which has violated the first principle of leadership not protecting his...

President saying muammar qaddafis attacks on his own people left the u.s. and our allies no choice but to strike and you have seen the stunning video of those cruise missiles on their way and earlier today, hillary clinton also spoke about the importance of the international support for this effort. >> americans and people around the world watched with growing concern as libyan civilians were gunned done by a government that lost all ledgitimacy, the arab league shows, with the statements on lib...

>> rick: a "fox news alert," a video into fox showing the tomahawk missiles fired from a u.s. ship, the u.s. and their al vice we have told you, launching airstrikes against the qaddafi regime earlier today and the pentagon saying the u.s. and the u.k. launched 112 missiles, targeting 20 targeted libyan sites and this is the first chance we are getting with the videotape to see some of that in action, video from the department of defense. right here on fox, as we get more well show you. first, p...