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For now, the planes taking action in libya have been french planes aimed toward the military, the government-controlled forces outside of benghazi. those are the forces that went in today, violated the cease-fire by firing on benghazi. but the libyan government says it was not responsible for that firing. general mccafferty, this would be a great time to weigh in on the plans as we're getting them from the pentagon. >> i'm sure they will execute it. the brits and the french are extremely competent air forces -- >> general, here's david cameron, the prime minister of great britain making a stat...

It was action that was spearheaded by the ferrrench. they were the hawks from the get-go and recognized libyan rebels as being able to talk for the libyan people and then we saw the united nations go forward with the resolution. i've just received in, from the news wires now, russia saying it regrets the decision by western powers to take military action in libya. is that surprising to you? >> no. what surprised me is that the french and i mean the russians and the chinese abstained and the u.n. security council, about resolution 1973, which then permitted it to pass. they've been against west...

States. we will support an international coalition as it takes all necessary measures to enforce the terms of resolution 1973. as you may know, french planes are already in the skies above benghazi. now, america has unique capabilities and we will bring them to bear to help our european and canadian allies and arab partners stop further violence against civilians including through the effective implementation of a no fly zone. as president obama said, the united states will not deploy ground troops but there should be no mistaking our commitment to this effort. >> as secretary clinton was aske...

International intervention that the rebels would quickly lose all of benghazi. the rebels say now they have, however, fought off gadhafi's forces and managed after a very difficult day with maybe -- maybe 30 people killed, perhaps more, in benghazi, itself. they've managed to hold on to the city but aside from the people of benghazi, aside from the rebels, there are thousands of ordinary people who now see themselves facing an aggressive army by gadhafi facing rebel movement and now international intervention and simply want to leave the country and most of them are heading in this direction t...

We are also anticipating a statement from president obama on libya. the president is in brazil right now expected to talk a little bit about libya. he did address it earlier today in his news conference with brazil's president but again, we are expecting to hear from him shortly and when we do we'll take that for you live. secretary of state hillary clinton has been meeting throughout the day with nato allies in paris. she's expected to return to washington tonight and secretary clinton addressed the world earlier today as french war planes fired the first shots on libyan tanks. >> americans a...