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Breaking news this hour, the united states and its allies are unleashing more military might to try to stop moammar gadhafi's troops and their bloody assault against rebels and civilians. defense secretary robert gates revealing a short while ago that armed predator drone are now part of the u.s. arsenal in libya. >> now, the president has said that where we have some unique capabilities, he is willing to use those and, in fact, he has approved the use of predators. and i think that today may have, in fact, been their first mission. so i think that will give us some precision capability. >> al...

Strikes against targets critical to gadhafi's forces. we want to bring in our senior international correspondent nic robertson, logged many days and weeks covering the conflict in libya. he is with us now nic, are the u.s. drones going to make a difference in this fight? >> reporter: they are. they can fly lower, they can fly more safely, full, because they are not putting physical pilot at risk, so they will be able to see gadhafi's military hardware on the ground. they can fly slower. so we will be able to get a much better picture of exactly what's happen october ground as well as being abl...

They need to operate out of an airfield that is not too far awake does this mean malta? does this mean where nato aircraft are operating out of in the south ofitily? does this mean that they have got an airfield that they can use perhaps in the eastern part, the rebel-controlled part of libya? that's very, very unlikely, but or is it possibly egypt? that sun likely. they need to be relatively close. that is the important thing. i think the political safety this gives president obama, you are less likely to lose air servicemen in this type of operation and therefore, you're less likely to lose ...