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Seen for days now, the indiscriminate shelling of many cities and n libya. especially misrata, benghazi, other major population centers continues by gadhafi forces. nato is trying to do everything it can to attack and basically take down gadhafi's military capabilities. take down any of his ability to move his forces around and communicate with his forces in the field. and his ability to launch coordinated attacks against street people of libya. that's the goal here. have a listen to what the pentagon had to say about why the predator drone was picked. >> that they will bring that issue unique...

Cnn team encountered this 13-year-old boy named moved carrying an ak-47. he said he was train order how to use it by his uncle and his mother was okay with him fighting. could the u.s. and allies see their support of these rebels come back to bite them? the president of neighboring chad has saidal al qaeda operatives in north africa have taken many of the surface-to-air missiles which al qaeda's used to target civilian aircraft in the past. the president offered no concrete evidence al qaeda had taken those weapons and u.s. official told cnn today that there's no indication that stockpiles of ...

Surrounded the dodger team, the divorce, this horrible beating thathappened, i mean, this is not good news for the dodgers. so they are saying that this is exactly perhaps what the dodgers need to bring some integrity, they say, back to the organization. and to the franchise. >> thelma gutierrez in l.a. for us. thank you. you are in "the situation room." happening now, breaking news. pentagon is expanding the u.s. arsenal against libya. and adding one of the most effective but controversial weapons. the predator drone. also, president obama says he feels your pain at the pump and now his jus...

We are following breaking news. new u.s. weaponry now being cleared for use against moammar gadhafi's forces. defense secretary robert gates says president obama has signed off on the use of predator drone aircraft in libya. cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr is working. this story for us. barbara, what can you tell us about how these predator drones will be used? >> well, candy, these -- this was just approved in the last several days by president obama when nato made the request of the united states for these unmanned drones which nonetheless are armed with missiles. they will now fly ...

That kind of weakness ho could come home to roost. >> that being said, the president is in an incredibly tough position, he is dealing with japan, earthquakes, nuclear crises, he is dealing with what happened in egypt, dealing with libya. i think he found a way in libya to thread this needle that has the american forces in there to do what they can to help, but also keeps american troops off the ground, which i think american public would really not want to see. we have to give him a little bit of credit for trying to handle these things i. >> maybe veryly. i think he is like captain spalding,...