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More civilians. nine dead here, as well, and 14 injured. the taliban later claimed responsibility for the attack saying it was aimed as a message at secretary hagel who at that time was in the middle of a briefing a couple of miles where the explosion took place. the explosion did not interrupt that briefing nor did it interrupt the secretary's itinerary. went up to bagram air base and consult with commanders there, coalition commanders. and then as you said, we had spent time listening to troops from the 101st airborne. it was the first time we've had a chance to do that in a long time. tomor...

Very limited in leadership here. >> this has happened during the day in broad daylight. we believe these are gadhafi forces? >> that are being targeted, it appears to be. we heard coalition commanders say they will continue to degrade gadhafi's forces where they think they are being used to reinforce or command and communicate with the front line forces that we're hearing today are using heavy artillery against rebels in not only misrata but also in the town of ben jawad in the east as well. this appears to be, as far as we know, striking at government forces here. suzanne? >> our nic robertso...

Withdraw your arms and troops for areas where they are attacking civilians. serve the people of libya and not serve the illegitimate regime. >> general ham, thank you for joining us. and all the men and women you command. >> thank you very much, wolf. >> let's talk aut what we just heard with our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence and our white house correspondent, dan lothian. now, i know you're getting more details, chris, over at the oat pentagonn in exactly we should expect to see in the next few days. walk us through this process. >> yeah, wolf, i was speaking with the coalition offici...

Here. >> now, we heard from french defense officials that they shot down, not from the air but while it was on the runway in misrata a libyan airplane. does that mean that the libyan air force is not completely disabled? clearly they were still flying a plane today, nic. >> reporter: well, it seems listening to coalition commanders over the weekend when the air campaign began that they were implying that actually from really from the announcement of the u.n. security council resolution that the libyans have stopped flying their aircraft. it seemed to be a protective move on their part. libya h...

Shortly. first in this case robertson joins us. my question -- nic robertson joins us. my question -- are gadhafi's troops showing any signs of cracking under the four-day assault that we have waged against them? >> reporter: from what we're seeing here in tripoli, the answer seems to be no. from the reports that we get from coalition and from opposition forces in misurata, the answer also appears to be no. from the town in the east of the country where there's been reports of fighting in the city between rebels and the government, the answer there seems to be no. coalition commanders had yest...