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Anything i want because i m not going to get one on my head right now. unfortunately this is a despot that does have a following in his country and can encourage people to stay and fight. one of the things that should be happening here in the next 24-48 hours you would start to see defections from khadafy s military. i m not talking about the brigades commanded by his son but some of the other support troops that may be reconsidering themselves. if khadafy can be seen in public as saddam hussein did in the midst of the operations 20th march 2003, if he can go out and be seen that will encourage people not to defect. gregg: he will do anything to hang on to power and has done so for four decades. he is a present contingent us on killer a mass murderer the list goes on and on, very close to home, pan am flight 103. ....
Been unknown. his statement to the nation have been by telephone, those telephone speeches replayed on state television. as far as the fighting on the ground goes, across libya, there is still government forces in action around the city of misrata but the breather for the rebels in the stronghold of benghazi. tanks belonging to khadafy were wiped out by french warplanes and there are reports that fled the rebel stronghold now feeling safe enough to return to that. that is the situation right here. we have a quiet night right now. 40 minutes ago, the whole city was thundering as anti-aircraft fire was going up into the sky zbleets president obama s decision to take action. and senior member of the house ways and means committee and ....
Or any gunfight. this is not easy but this is the easiest part of what may turn out to be a rather prolonged campaign even though they now have agreements from at least one arab country to join this coalition. gregg: look, the president stated objectives and he stated it yesterday is that we want to protect the libyan people. has he shifted away from what was his stated policy of regime change? it strikes me that he has. the commitment there won t be one single ground troop put on the ground. no u.s. military personnel involved on the ground in libya, the rather confusing outcome of the conversation that admiral gordon but admiral mullens, what is the ultimate objective of this operation? is it simply to destroy khadafy s air force. ....
Fighter jets up there or not. we haven t heard any incoming explosions. right now we are seeing outgoing. as far as khadafy himself, he has remained defiant throughout the crisis. he has saying it s a form of hitlerism and he has promised a long war, most disconcerting he has made it clear targets will not just be military and civilian, as well. this is man that carried out terrorist acts in the past. one interesting thing, if he has been seen or not, he has not mountain last two days. in the past weeks he has been shown raising his fist but the last two days and has to make you wonder if been damaged or he is hiding fearing that a strike on him personally. gregg: residents of tripoli ....
Up the cost, they have cited 120 tomahawk missiles, each with price tag of $600,000 and that puts the total cost at $70 million in two days, that is just from missiles. steve? reporter: despite promises of a cease-fire by some of the khadafy s head of the military we are hearing quite a lot of anti-aircraft fire coming from three positions around khadafy s own compound. so far all the fire we have seen is outgoing fire from mobile anti-aircraft batteries. pentagon officials assured us that khadafy himself is not being targeted. there are unconfirmed reports of a plume of smoke rising from khadafy s compound. over the last several days, khadafy s own whereabouts have ....