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Were some communications or talk -- to try to talk that down -- >> we are on the leading edge of coalition operations. we're the united states under general hamm in africa command. he's in charge of this at this point. and in the coming days, we intend to transition it to a coalition command. >> can you say how many british ships were involved compared to the u.s. ships? >> we had one british submarine. >> and the rest were all u.s.? >> yes, ma'am. >> and the number of that? >> i don't have that in front of me, any of the exact numbers. >> how sophisticated was this air defense system compared...

Jack, did this clear up any of the questions we were talking about earlier about who is in charge of this coalition of international forces attacking libya? >> oh, yeah, there was lots and lots of talk from the government of how this is a coalition that united states is not leading. that turns out not to be the case, at least for the initial phase of the operation. african command run by general carter hamm, united states is in charge and everything that was done in the initial phases was done under his command. at some point, we don't know when that will be, it will surely be after the rest o...