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Not going to prosecute you for war crimes, and then he goes back and says to gadhafi, hey, look, this is whats going on, and i think this is a deal you may want to take. so theres a possibility, though i think they probably are going to denounce him as a traitor. >> to your point, peter, if a military commander or even if one of his sons were to defect and you have this image of gadhafi standing alone in a room, how does he then control any forces he may have left on the ground? what happens the...

Officer. peter. thank you for joining me. good to be with you. us this is perfect case in point. now in london defecting, how big of a deal is this today? >> well, its certainly symbolic. he is one of the inner circle. it could be showing some cracks in this regime. thats what the administration and nato allies and other coalition partners had been hoping for. but once again whats going on on the ground is a military operation. i would feel much better, i think, if i heard about senior generals ...

those are the rebels. and what you see right there is actually the road we spoke about just yesterday. this is that coastal road meandering along the med ter and ian sea where most of the fighting is taking place. heres the maps. today the rebels have regrouped near brega. but i want to turn the corner because all eyes today are on tripoli and the quell of whether gadhafis inner circle perhaps has been collapsing. moussa koussa turned up yesterday in london defected, heres what we know...

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around $25 billion a year. we think we can achieve the same objectives by 2014 with a force of one quarter that size. that force is important and it cannot be at tiny force, 10,000 or less, because it will not have sufficient capability to do the job. our vital interests are what drives us. we have a vital interest to keep pressure on al qaeda to prevent them from attacking the united states. we did that from afghanistan as well as with our friends in pakistan. if we took those network...

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