entail, former bush administration national security adviser steven hadley and retired army major general james spider marks. mr. hadley, what do you think, is it a good idea? i think he s got to consider it. the problem the president has, he has a gap between what he says he wants to do to get rid of gadhafi and what the no-fly zone zone authorizes him to do, which is use military force to protect civilians. he s got to close that gap and he s trying to do it by strengthening the opposition, by splitting gadhafi s military away from him. by promising to help build a new libya. i think he s also got to do it in terms of strengthening the opposition by giving them arms so they can impose their anti-tank and anti-air zone. and really i think this is going to be decided by the libyan people. whether they see this as an opportunity to get rid of this dictator and whether they will rise up in the tens of thousands or the hundreds of thousands and
in benghazi tonight, reza sayah. reza, you traveled all that way to meet with her mom. how is her family holding up? reporter: they re holding up. we expected them to be worried. they are. what we didn t expect is this type of outrage that we saw. some of the comments they were making were incredibly bitter and pointed. the fact she said she wants to see gadhafi killed. she wants his head delivered to the town. these are extreme statements, statements that were a couple of months ago unthinkable. now you have a libyan woman going on camera, openly making these statements. it shows how angry they are and it also shows how people on this side of libya, at least on the eastern side, territory firmly in the hands of the opposition are no longer afraid of making these kinds of comments against colonel gadhafi. reza, in several cities we
perhaps the single most chilling episode yet to come out of libya. this is eman al obeidy in tripoli on saturday alleging gang rape at the hands of gadhafi s troops. you can see her being silenced, a bag put over her head, then a short time later hustled off to a car, the last anyone has seen of her. actually, that looks like a coat put over her head. today, the regime says she s with her family. but keeping them honest, cnn drove for hours, tracked down her real family. they said she s not with them and they have no word of where she is. her mother says she would like to kill gadhafi. translator: no, i m not afraid of gadhafi. if i were to see his face in front of me, i would strangle him. when we go all the way to tripoli, i will cut his head off and bring it here. eman s mother also said that right after the incident, she got a call at 3:00 a.m. from gadhafi s compound. officials she says asking her to convince her daughter to retract
army. or gadhafi s loyalist forces. at least these reports impossible for us to confirm here for the very reasons that we can t go and talk freely to people. when i was at the gas pump the other day checking up on people s thoughts about the fact that they were lining up for gas, there were three government minders standing over my shoulder. one of them even interfering with the gentleman i was talking to. it was clear he wasn t a huge fan of the regime, he wasn t carrying a green flag with him. didn t have any of these sort of green flags tied in his car. but the government minder, when i asked this man a question that might he might have just given me something, some piece of information against the regime, there was a government official standing over my shoulder telling him some of the things to say. so it s little wonder that people don t dare come up and speak to us. there were officials around us and people were trying to tell them what to say, anderson. arwa damon, you re i
i want to buy your ipad, what do i do? i can swipe your card right here. it goes through and then you just sign with your finger. that s it. i sign, processed, done. and anyone can do snit anyone can do it. you re going to make another billion, aren t you? you sicken me, the pair of you. guys, thank you very much. [ applause ] that s all tonight. here s my colleague, anderson cooper with ac 360. thank you very much. breaking news. good evening, everyone, on libya. and a possible escalation in america s military involvement. after a day of seeing libyan opposition fighters retreating, beaten back from places they only retook days ago, tonight the obama administration says it s open to the possibility of sending them weapons. these are pictures of fighters pulling back from bin jawad after coming under heavy fire from gadhafi s forces. without more nato forces on gadhafi s forces, it is hard to see how the opposition can defeat gadhafi s army.