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Of benghazi, which is under attack, and other areas from attacks of mercenaries. it seems like a comprehensive resolution. >> it's unprecedented given the fact the russians and the chinese decided to abstain. there are ten countries that support us. you have the arab league basically endorsing this. the question ultimately is who is going to do the heavy lifting here, chris? is it going to be the french who recognize the new libyan provisional government? is it going to be the brits? is it going to be the united states? right now it's very controversial for the united states to militarily get ...

Hope. it could perhaps give its nato, arab league and you bring in egyptians and saudis to actually do it, but the ability for international forces to bomb a no-drive zone, if you will. gadhafi's forces to prevent it from getting to benghazi. >> those are all the logical measures that need to be looked at and improved internationally before the united states does anything. chuck, i want to be clear. i'm not saying the united states should not do anything in libya. i was asked to look at the lessons of past intervention. the lessons are that you have to have a basis for intervention in internat...

Measures. >> now, it's my understanding that the russians at the united nations tried to put up a cease-fire resolution and it's basically been rejected. so, you believe that's a mistake. >> it depends on what the wording is in the cease-fire resolution. i think you have to tie all of these diplomatic measures together. if you were to put a cease-fire resolution up and say, call for cease-fire, wait three weeks and see what happens. well, that's a mistake. we're going to reject that. but starting with the call for cease-fire and moving through the no-fly zone and the authorization under chapte...

They are mostly in western tripoli where he's defending his strong points and a real concern would be the city of misarata with people easily within reach of his armored capability. >> we're just getting this tonight. all necessary means to defend the civilian population. gadhafi said late today, he said it a few minutes ago he's going in and killing people in b benghazi. this might cover people who live in their houses. your thoughts? >> chris, the most effective means that can be used is being done by the egyptians. they're sending in arms and munitions to the rebels. >> right. we have that ...

Country across here, quite substantially bigger than the west. what's also bigger is the city of benghazi. you see it at the top. b benghazi and parts of libya are under siege. that's about three times as many oil wells in the east as there are here in the west and you see the west is down south of tripoli which, of course, is the capital and where moammar gadhafi has his power base. according to the consultant group, foreign companies produce about a third of libya's oil. they define the biggest producers. easily the biggest player of the foreign nationals in libya, up 244 million barrels a d...