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Parliament to agree to be part of a nato command in which they would be in charge of the libyan operation. when the turkish parliament agreed that cleared the way because all of the nato members needed to agree. here is what we know of the command structure: it will be based in italy, a southern headquarters that has been established for nato, in existence, an easy place to slip in, and also where the u.s. air force has what is called the air force southern command so there will be u.s. commanders sitting at the headquarters, and even when general carter ham hands over to a british or french c...

Haven't been flying. today there was one and we will get to that i guess somebody shot and it ended up on the ground. u.s. commanders are still insisting they want to hand over control of everything, right? >> absolutely. in fact, you heard -- we heard from general carter ham today. he said that it is still his mission and his desire to hand over to a nato structure. take a listen to what he said. >> it's our hope and i think as a military person, the best and easiest transition would be to nato because so many of the nations who are participating are nato. >> but the problem, shep, is that tu...

Screwed gadhafi over a piece of land in a deal. turns out trump isn't telling us the whole truth. my commentary on this off the top. tonight this country is in its third conflict. we're going to get in double figures before this is over with. congress is asking questions. the american people are confused. i think some americans are. and there's no end game in sight. that's what is so ominous about all of this. coalition air strikes pounded libya for the third straight night as rebels advanced on pro-gadhafi forces on the ground. the head of the united states, africa command, general carter ham...

Under that protect civilian clause. >> reporter: so, what will the coalition do if the rebels go on the offensive? try to take back territory. if they become the danger to civilians. >> so, this will become a particular challenge for us. should that -- should that eventuality occur. >> reporter: it's not even clear how far they'll go to fight gadhafi forces. they say they have bombed infantry units but -- >> tears no intent to completely destroy the libyan military forces. >> reporter: for now they're focused on extending no-fly zone to benghazi and eventually enforcing it over the western hal...

Next up general carter ham today said qualify is not a target. interesting since missiles have already destroyed the colonel's compound in tripoli. so much for that then there is the constant question, what is the goal of the mission? no spin? the goal of the mission is to remove qaddafi. why else would a coalition force be attacking him? but president obama and all the other leaders won't say that because they are afraid to anger the arab world even a a-year-old knows you don't bomb a country unless you want the country to change. libya is not going to change unless qaddafi is out of there. d...