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Involvement from the start. much more from the arabs and much more from ou european allies who are neighbors there. for example, italy has a substantial air force and air fields nearby. they could have done a lot more. egypt is right next door. the egyptian air force alone was quite capable of imposing a no-friday zone. what does it mean to turn it over to nato? it means turning it overrom us to us. we are nato. the commander-in-chief of nato is a u.s. admiral. and we will maintain -- >> although the effts being led now by a canadian. >> what? >> the effort now said wille run by acanadian. >> ...

Loyal to libyan leader, moammar gadhafi. and what you're hearing there, just some of the anti-aircraft fire we heard in the last hour in libya's capital, tripoli. you heard it here as we were talking to nic robertson. still no sign of coalition aircraft, though. no clue, really what they were shooting at. at present, about seven nations actively involved in what's now known as operation odyssey dawn. its aim of course to force the libyan leader, moammar gadhafi, to abide by a united nations' authorized cease-fire and no fly zone. u.s. joint chiefs of staff chairman mike mullen says most of g...

After french, u.s., and british planes pounded critical targets in his country. we promise you a long-drawn war and patience that has no limit and belief, deep belief. we are not disturbed. we are not worried. we are not afraid. >> the strikes have taken out most of libya's air defense systems and air fields. libyan troops near benghazi also were hit. richard? the perspective of what it's actually like on the ground, the situation at the moment in libya. we needed to talk to someone who is living in tripoli. so i spoke to a woman earlier this morning. this is what she had to say. >> for the ...

Supply lines. >> right. >> what about communications? have we been able to take out any of that? >> we have focused on mostly his air defense capability and air fields. certainly his command and control, what this will allow us to do right now is to get other capabilities where we can jam his communications and do those kinds of things. so this is -- i think as was pointed out yesterday, yesterday was a furst phase first phase o very complex operation. again, he gets a vote here. what depends in the future in great part depends on what colonel gadhafi does. >> and what you want him to do is mo...

Candy? >> thanks. we want to get the latest on the u.s. military side. we bring in chris lawrence, joining us from the pentagon. chris, what so far have been the results of about 24 hours worth of military activity in and around libya? >> well, pentagon officials are saying they have degraded colonel gadhafi's ability to attack any jets that are flying. and i think that's why you saw admiral mullen come out and say, yes, the no-fly zone has started to become established around the area of benghazi. british jets and u.s. war planes and 19 u.s. warplanes all flying, hitting not only his service ...