casualties caused by any of the nato air strikes. take a listen to defense secretary robert gates yesterday. >> the truth of the matter is we have trouble coming up with proof of any civilian casualties that we have been responsible for, but we do have a lot of intelligence reporting about qaddhafi taking the bodies that he's killed and putting them at sites that we have attacked. >> reporter: we heard from the libyan ambassador to washington, basically as this whole mission began over a week ago, that that was qaddhafi's plan to take civilians and those that his forces had killed, to role themm out of the portion and put them at sites and say nato air strikes had killed them. there are very, very serious allegations taking place on the ground. rick leventhal doing amazing reporting from eastern libya. he'll have more reports on what