Libyan Ground Forces News Today

Doing, go aft libyan ground forces, attack them from the air? >> it is my understanding that nato has agreed in from principle to accept that mission. and in the coming days,he tdey decide exactly how and when they want to execute that mission. t its important to remember th the united states is a nato member. we participate in those discussihoon a im confident that those discussions will, indeed, end with a satisfactory solution for nato to accept this mission. >> but in the meantime, until nat...

Going on in libya. is that right? >> our mission is dictated by the u.n. security council resolution. so the agreement of the security council has given us these three missions, and think appropriately, at least to me, the most important of those is to protect civilians. and thats where were putting our effort. not in supporting one party or the other. >> if these rebels, the opposition and civilians for that matter are being attacked by libyan snipers, what do you do about that? >> its the toug...

Timing of accepting that mission. but i think that will probably occur in the very near future. >> so when nato takes over command of everything, assuming that happens, and its stl an assumption right now, what is your job and the job of the u.s. militarys africa command? >> well, libya is one of the 53 countries in africa for which this command is responsible. so we still have a decided inrest in security matters in libya. but once nato assumes responsibility forhoseth missions, then i would ha...

>> there is contact, im not aware of anyone who is on the ground with them. >> well, the president himself said that he was naming someone to be a liaison to the opposition when i was in paris the other day with the secretary of state. she met with one of the opposition leaders herself. not a million tear dialogue. >> thats correct. >> what is next? how long is this operation in libya going to take before you declare mission accomplished? >> well, i think we have acmplished quite a bit already. ...

Increasing the possibility of a large-scale release of radiation. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." was be ebegin with bya. moammar gadhafis forces are facing the powerful weapons of the nato alliance, like this air strike by britain. and yet, u.s. military officials concede today that the libyan regime is still determined to fight and reinforced its positions in the eastern cities fwh including ajdabiya. the occasion says gadhafi is trying to recruit and arm volunteers to figh...

They dont want to go to benghazi and set up a temporary housing with family because they believe every nit when theyo to sleep that somehow when they wake up the next morning, gadhafis forces will have been defeate defeated, and they can go home. >> theyre confident in the end, whether itakes days, weeks, months, in the end they will succeed. gadhafi will be defeated? >> reporter: theyre confident in that, wolf. and theyre also clinging to that. becausat the end of the day, psychologically speak...

Today. what are you seeing where you are, reza? >> reporter: well, i think the most urgent and volatile situation remains in a strategically critical city of ajdabiya. new developments today in that city. a british military official telling cnn the british fighter jets targeted and destroyed libyan tanks that had been th city.t a key destruction of these tanks, the rebel forces that are trying to move into the city. also, were getting a lot of disturbing accounts over the past couple of days abo...