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After. >> how long does it take to set up the no-fly doan? >> reporter: well, you know, really behind the scenes they have been working on it for many years. the aircraft are place. the bases in southern europe are in place. the refueling, the command and control, all of it. but the essential problem is, even though u.s. war planes for the moment have no plans to fly in to libyan air space, you really cannot send the pilots over libya whether they are french, british, acanadian, from arab league...

Surrounded baghdad built on older soviet technology but still good capability. >> two things. the bomb damage assessment, do you have a rough idea, will that take hours or days? >> i would say between hours and days. >> and is it fair -- >> its going to take us anywhere from 6 to 12 hours to get this based on assessing whether or not the sa-5 sites are down, that we can then move a global hawk in and the other national technical means to collect and then assess. >> is it fair to say that the no-...

Anti-aircraft guns. cnns nic robertson is live in tripoli. thanks very much. >> i doubt if those guns are going to do much good against tomahawk cruise missiles. the u.s. military says todays strikes in libya are just the first stage, just the beginning of whats likely to be a multiphased operation. thats what theyre saying. those comments come as dozens -- 110 specifically, maybe 112 tomahawk missiles rained down on strategy targets in the western part of libya. pentagon correspondent chris law...

But still could capability. >> two things. the bomb damage assessment, do you have a rough idea -- will that take hours or days? >> i would say between hours and days. >> is it fair -- >> its going to take us anywhere from 6 to 12 hours to get this, based on assessing whether or not the sa-5 sites are down that we could then move global hawk in and the other national technical means to collect and then assess. >> it fair to say the no-fly zone enforcement wont begin until the damage assessment i...

We judge these strisks been very effective and significantly degrading the regimes air defense capability to include their ability to launch many of their sa-5, which are the long-range surface-to-air missiles, the sa-3s and sa had-2s. the slide at my left shows a rough depiction of where these additional strikes were executed. the initial strikes that i briefed you yesterday are highlighted in yellow and the strikes after i briefed you are in red. there has been no new air activity -- >> going ...

We judged the strikes and they have been very effective. the regimes capability to include their ability to launch many of their sa-5s which are the long range surface to air missiles. the strikes were executed. the initial strikes that i briefed yesterday are highlighted in yellow and the strikes after i briefed you are in red. there has been no new air activity by the regime. we have detected no radar emission from any of the air defense targeted and significant decrease in the use of all liby...