Libya 2011 News Today

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This morning on "world news now" -- dramatic defection. moammar gadhafis foreign minister flees libya. >> his resignation and departure happens as american lawmakers consider sending money to help libyas rebels. its thursday, march 31st. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." and good morning, everybody. im rob nelson. >> im peggy bunker. libyas opposition forces lost a big battle over a big oil-producing territory. well investigate these rebels and see whos really behind the...

Those levels are twice as high as the u.n.s recommended level for evacuations. we could learn more about u.s. military involvement in libya during hearings on capitol hill today. the defense secretary and also joint chiefs of staff are expected to testify before the house armed services committee. meanwhile, libyan leader moammar gadhafi has suffered a major setback. larry jacobs reports. >> reporter: libyan foreign minister flew to england and resigning his post to protest regimes attacks on ...

White house officials are worrying about today. >> a little boy on his 14th birthday gets a horse. everybody in the village says, how wonderful the boy got a horse. the master says, well see. two years later the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg and everybody in the village says, how terrible. the master says, well see. then a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight except the boy cant because his leg is messed up and everybody in the village says, how wonderful. >> a...

That of a fair chance. >> reporter: in that case the freedom fighters eventually became the taliban, al qaeda and other affiliated groups. something very much on the mind of white house officials as they debate arming the libyan opposition. what do we know about them? >> we dont know as much as we would like to know and as much as we expect we will know. >> reporter: the oppositions official representatives seem credible to the white house but serious questions remain about who the rebels are on...

To end gun violence says 2.8 million people have been shot in the united states. a million of them killed. and more than 200,000 of them since that january 8th shooting in tucson. >> thanks so much. now to the latest in libya. theres been a major defection by one of gadhafis top aides. libyas foreign minister has arrived in london after resigning his post. a libyan government spokesperson denied the foreign minister has defected saying he was in london on a diplomatic mission. but theres bette...

>> hes not ruling something in or out in term of lethal assistance to the opposition. >> reporter: so little is known about the rebels. there are serious questions about who they are. >> we have seen flickers in the intelligence of potential al qaeda, hezbollah. weve seen different things. >> reporter: thats one of president obamas concerns. what will arming these rebels ultimately mean in the long term while in libya fighting continues? larry jacobs, abc news. there are reports this morning t...

Big debate whether they should have that killer whale back. >> definitely brought a lot of attention to seaworld, thats for sure. coming up later, prince harrys big plunge into freezing arctic water. kaboom! look at him there. he looks good. >> nice suit. >> as hes training for his north pole trek. well have more information coming up. >> hes doing it for a good cause. >> he is. >> makes the cold bearable. >> good for harry. we begin with a blow to moammar gadhafi. one of his closest aides h...

Cnn.com. why libya 2011 is not iraq 2003. absent from the protests is the burning of american flags. thats because arabs have been able to express that their biggest enemy isnt the united states but their own rulers. thats an encouraging sign today. >> sure. >> but there is a question mark about where we go fm. >> always. al qaeda is not an accident that so many people are from egypt, yemen or saudi. these repressive dictatorships, revolutionary jihadism flourishes. also, this is the death knell...