Jamming Gadhafi News Today

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...

That gadhafis forces cant push them back too far. so, from a rebel perspective, they have this support from nato, which allows them to stay in the fight. it prevents them from losing, but they dont have enough force and they certainly dont have ground force to win. so, there is a stalemate on the ground. this also comes as the u.s. role, as you mentioned earlier, is at a transition point. as of today, the u.s. is ending what the pentagon calls strike missions. these are bombing runs. there will ...

Some kind. we dont know. >> if you were still cia director, what would you be telling your agents to do right now? >> well, collect intelligence is the key thing, and find out whos running the rebellion. there are rumors that there are some people connected with al qaeda involved, muslim brother hood. on the other hand, a number of them appear to be sincere opponents of gadhafi, who is a terrible dictator. we need to know a lot more. the cia made a mistake 20, 30 years ago in iran by just listen...

And i dont mean to say that lightly. what happened was there was on the front line, again in very close to brega, there is a chaotic highway front line where you have rebels in their pickup trucks firing antiaircraft guns and rockets and mortars at gadhafis forces, and gadhafis forces are in tanks, but also in very similar looking pickup trucks. and as nato jets were in the sky, it appears, according to witnesses, that someone on the rebel side was firing an antiaircraft gun up at the nato jet, ...

Up doing in libya now that this resolution is passed? >> well, if the rebels in benghazi can hold out another day or two days, i expect youre going to be seeing immediate action. the french have been straining at the bit to come in. but fundamentally, youve got to coordinate the actions of others. hopefully, there will be arab participants that come into this that are also part of the action. i think its very potentially nasty if its only western nato force thats are coming in to libya that we c...

Think we are talking about here? what do you think the u.s. and other western countries will end up doing in libya now that this resolution is passed? >> well, if the rebels in benghazi can hold out another day or two days, i expect youre going to be seeing immediate action. the french have been straining at the bit to come in. but fundamentally, youve got to coordinate the actions of others. hopefully, there will be arab participants that come into this that are also part of the action. i think...

Up doing in libya now that this resolution is passed? >> well, if the rebels in benghazi can hold out another day or two days, i expect youre going to be seeing immediate action. the french have been straining at the bit to come in. but fundamentally, youve got to coordinate the actions of others. hopefully, there will be arab participants that come into this that are also part of the action. i think its very potentially nasty if its only western nato force thats are coming in to libya that we c...

Gadhafis side infiltrated their ranks and was firing deliberately to provoke the attack, but its hard to know if thats really the case. >> okay. richard engel from benghazi. richard, thank you, as always. well, spring has arrived, but it certainly doesnt feel like it in some parts of the country. in the nations capital, the nationals/braves game was delayed because of hail. the area got pounded by rain. meanwhile, the weather has also been extreme out west, where the record highs were set satu...