Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110307:16:40:00
Withering helicopter gunship fire and they returned fire, aaa fire, as well. so we're talking about really major war here going on. the objective, of course, for the rebels is to get to the town strategically, the gateway to tripoli to the east but it's also, as we all know, moammar gadhafi's hometown. so it has a lot of symbolic significance, as well. thomas, it's really hard to see, at this point, how the opposition from a military point of view, is going to be able to win this on the battlefield. they've got about 1,000 fighters. we know that gadhafi has 100 times that in terms of regular a...