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Citizens have been killed. in afghanistan in that same period of time, 21,000 civilians have been kill. that can give you an idea the dimensions of this conflict, which is spilled over, moved into places in mexico like monterey, acapulco and other places we never thought we would see this kind of violence. >> greta: if we in libya for humanitarian purposes. and you talk about mexico and 34,000, even our own u.s. ambassador resigned saturday. there wasnt much attention because it was in the mit o...

Thank you. >> next, if you think libya has problems, try yemen. home to a growing al-qaeda. now yemens president is moving his grip which spells big trouble. >> you watched the boy being bullied and sticking up for himself. tonight hes speaking out. you will hear directly from him. introducing the thunderbolt by htc. immense power. scorching speed. the first phone strong enough to run on the fastest, most advanced 4g network in america.

Airstrikes in libya trying to stop qadhafi from massacring more of his own people. unrest in yemen and bahrain all grave concern to israel. theres news tonight that israel just suffered its worst rocket attack in two years hamas publicly claiming responsible. ehud barak joins us. as i look at what is going on in gaza with hamas sending rockets into israel. israel striking back and injuries. you got qadhafi who says the war there is in part because of oil and zionists. syrians siding with qadhafi...

The mission accomplished? which is, stop the slaughter. remove qadhafi from power. and give the people of libya a chance to -- for democracy and freedom. why not that be our highest priority? >> greta: i am unclear from what president obama said that zeroing in on qadhafi is what he has an idea is the mission. he would like to see that happen. i dont see that -- he didnt say that straight up, i dont think. >> i think what the president is trying to do here is walk a fine line. because the u.n. r...

Use of force. president george w. bush did that with iraq and afghanistan, which made for a lot of awkward primary debates among democrats running against george w. bush and his wars in the following two elections. but sometimes presidents order military interventions without declaration of war and without a declaration of an authorization for use of force, and thats what president obama has done in libya. after announcing friday that u.s. military force would be used in libya, the president sen...

Disarray. we dont know hot somebody else is. people in congress are -- we dont know who the somebody else is. if congress wants to debate something they should debate placing control of americans in a major military operation under foreign command. is that what we want? a french admiral commanding american troops? >> greta: i dont want to see d4hároops there. not that it is my call. i thought it was unwise to tell -- not the world but to tell qadhafi we werent going to. we are just going to sho...

>> and now libya. >> now libya. and this master narrative, which mr. obama, president obama seems so resistant to. the idea the u.s. is eager to intervene in arab countries. do you see a strong difference between this, the character of this american intervention, and the other ones we just talked about, richard? >> well, i was sort of surprised. in the last several months, been touring the middle east, covering these revolts, and suddenly i woke up one morning, found myself covering an american ...

Term into account the -- thin cost change and the whole neighborhood is not exactly stable. at the same time [ unintelligible ] political reforms are needed all around the region. >> greta: minister, thank you. >> thank you. >> greta: joining us on the phone is jennifer griffin. >> reporter: i just want to clarify something about my reporting earlier tonight and today. earlier today i reported that fox news had not gone to qadhafis compound. journalists from other outlets such as cnn and reuters...

Western powers are trying to make room for people that may or may not be capable of filling that space. >> no doubt, this is a gamble for the president. people look at whether gadhafi stays or goes as a measure of president obamas strength in the world and what he is able to achieve. i think richards right. sometimes you have to be careful of joining oppositions that arent really in a position to win. you can create a moral hazard problem of getting other people elsewhere that begin campaigns ag...

Development side. i think you will be impressed and hopefully your viewers will be impressed. >> greta: we will be watching carefully. now libya. what would you have done about libya? would you have done the same thing or something different from what the president is doing? >> first, we have one president and one commander in chief at a time. in these early hours and days when we have the lives of men and women in our armed forces at risk, we want to make sure we are as supportive as we can be....