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They do, which could happen this weekend, the u.s. and allies will have military forces on the "no drive zone." and now the latest from the capital. steve? >>steve: we have yet to hear the soups of incoming cruise missiles or fighter jet attacks or outgoing anti-aircraft fire in tripoli but this is a major battle shaping up for the rebel forces in the east around ajdabiya with 1,000 rebel forces gathering in the first city they retake from muammar qaddafi government forces. now, on the ground on paper it is a mismatch. the rebels are armed lightly with rocket propelled grenades and machine gun...

And i can't see us getting out without a victory, meaning a successful exit of gadhafi from power and the imposition of a new government. that may take some time and one of the ironic impacts of the last couple of days may be that we have evened the playing field and we may be looking at, between the rebels and gadhafi, we may be looking at a protracted civil war that could go on for weeks or months or even longer and that means we'll stay in and maintain the no fly zone and effectively the no drive zone that our military has him posed over the last couple of days. this is a very complicated m...

Who has been taking the lead over the last three days? it's been the united states navy and the united states air force. we've knocked out those surface to air missile sites, the radar sites. we've constructed principally the no flight zone and now the no drive zone. to hand this off to our close friends and allies britain and france it will be difficult. the coalition will be challenged. the rebel army will go on the offensive. we leveled the playing field. we took away gadhafi's offensive advantage. when the rebels go on the offensive they will ask for and they are going to expect that the u...

The no-fly zone, no drive zone what we're establishing. in addition, we're getting intelligence information to the allies not only through the awacs aircraft but from overhead assets. satellites pinpointing the location of targets that will be hit by, by the first and second waves of probably sea launched cruise missiles. >> hmm. >> i think the countries that are going to get involved initially with aircraft are probably frangs and great britain. the nights might participate later on after the anti-air christ sites are destroyed. >> jack, we have iraq, we have afghanistan. is this going to be ...

Dangerous, but it's manageable. but bhen you get it mixed up on the ground you don't want to create instances that backfire against nato's good intentions. it's possible for him to still infiltrate tanks and snipers and intelligence agents and continue to pick apart the opposition. he's got them hemmed in at this point, it appears. so he does have the military momentum. it hasn't exactly changed yet. >> one final question, general. is there a lot of concern about the no-fly zone. it also becomes the no drive zone. you start taking out artillery and tanks. positions like that. is that a good id...