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I assume, a lot of them have those stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, which would -- very mobile and they could take down a plane. they could get lucky and do it. chris, thanks very much. chris is going to stay with us. jon, this is a war, for all practical purposes. it was a civil war. but now its expanded. >> and we have called it a no-fly zone that the united nations resolution established. but essentially, the u.n. wrote a blank check for everything short of an army of occupation...

You would use fighter jets, bomber jets to do this. this is not from libya but a marine operation in the past. you crater the runway to prohibit takeoffs and landings. they can be filled in of course but any time theyre filled in from satellite imagery you would see the activity happening out here. so this also would be a target. weve not been told about this happening in the early hours. but you can be certain a key priority take out his ability to take off and land those jets if he doesnt get ...

Means necessary to protect civilians. so sending weapons and arms to the rebels, not necessarily out of the question. >> not out of the question at all. there was a "wall street journal" report last night that there were arms coming into the opposition by land across the border from egypt. i tried to research that with a couple of senior administration officials. none of them would confirm it, that arms were coming into the opposition across land in egypt, essentially with the u.s. knowledge. an...

Type of weapons very much in the past. but certainly the sounds that were coming up, sporadic gunfire. theres nothing apparently in the sky for them to shoot at. but those sounds certainly coming up. weve seen more security out on the streets as we came through the city. government buildings being protected by armed civilians, traffic intersections being protected or controlled by armed police and very little traffic out on the streets as we came back towards our hotel here. perhaps an hour or s...

Him. this is not something thats peculiar to the situation in libya. weve seen this in other countries. iraq, for example, when it was targeted in 2003 and saddam hussein was overthrown, in the fir beginnings of the attacks there by the international coalition, people rallied behind the leadership there. so its not unusual to hear that rhetoric here. and its very hard to penetrate and get beyond whether this is just rhetoric or whether people feel they have to speak this way to us as foreigners....

situation room." im wolf blitzer in washington. >> and im jonathan mann in atlanta. we welcome you to our continuing coverage of "target libya." its been an extraordinary 48 hours. thursday afternoon, we saw the u.n. security council authorize the establishment of a no-fly zone over libya. and in just the last few hours, we have seen the first flights to bring that to the air. now, eight years to the day after u.s. military strikes began in iraq, the military has launched missiles into...

the international community responding with decisive force. hello to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we want to welcome you to a special edition of "the situation room." im wolf blitzer in washington and joined by jonathan mann in atlanta. jon, this is going to be a very ferocious fight given everything we know about moammar gadhafi, his sons, those most loyal to him. they are not going to give up really quickly. >> nearly 25 years after the u.s. attacked moamm...

The international community responding with decisive force. hello to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we want to welcome you to a special edition of "the situation room." im wolf blitzer in washington and joined by jonathan mann in atlanta. jon, this is going to be a very ferocious fight given everything we know about moammar gadhafi, his sons, those most loyal to him. they are not going to give up really quickly. >> nearly 25 years after the u.s. attacked moammar gadhafi...