Outside Brega News Today

A day fine on each democrat until they return. want to get now to more details on our lead story. libyas moammar gadhafis bombing his own people. our cnn senior international correspondent ben wideman joins us by phone from outside brega. that is the area that is under attack. and ben, you and i talked about this yesterday. you describe d the scene a yo about what had taken place. that was just the beginning. >> that was the beginning. it does appear the area around brega has been relatively q...

Brega. but there is a feeling that they achieved a major victory today by being able to gadhafis forces from the town. and my feeling was that they want to maintain that momentum and start moving forward. but their main concern at the moment is, of course, the possibility of more air attacks by the libyan air force. many of them saying that what theyd like to see is this much talked about no-fly zone, which was deny the libyan air force the ability to, at the moment, strike at will. suzanne? >> ...

Moammar gadhafi sent fighter jets to bomb two towns in eastern libya. >> hey! >> the port city is brega, home to libyas second largest oil facility. gadhafi fighters tried to retake that town yesterday, but rebels pushed them back into the desert. the international criminal court says -- at the hague says it is already investigating gadhafi and his inner circle for alleged war crimes. civilians in tripoli say they are targets for gadhafis forces. that is a chi lags of international law. >> the...