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Obviously to the extent that somebody has it in mind to get rid of gadhafi, that's all to the good. on the other hand, there have been reports that there are fighters in pakistan and elsewhere who are spoiling to get back there and set up an islamist state. so it's a worrisome situation. >> judge merkazy, thank you very much for your time. i want to turn to a woman who lost her husband in the bombing of pan am flight 103. we've spoken before about the situation. obviously there's been this big significant ghmt relation to the defection by moussa koussa. what was your reaction to this, and what...

Bombing at all? >> put simply, we don't know for sure. but there are many who believe he was. the scottish authorities as you said earlier want to talk to him about it. and there are several people here on capitol hill who say that the u.s. authorities should also talk to him as quickly as they can about the bombing of panam flight 103. he was a former intelligence head in libya. but not at the time of the bombing. he didn't take that position until 1994. but he has been at colonel qaddafi's right hand for 30 years. so a lot of people want to know exactly what he knows about that particular te...

>> if he supplies weapons to the revolutionaries, we have a good chance of getting him out. that should be a goal. we cannot declare war on him. >> you think the united states should be giving the rebels arms? >> we should be thinking about that. we don't want to let this go so it's protracted? >> there's no question, steve, we have to give the revolutionaries weapons. this is not like i'm hearing all morning on the show that we're going to into yemen and go into syria. we went after qaddafi because he blew up pan am flight 103. what galls me is that bush 43 and prime minister blair welcomed q...

Reaction to last night's address by the president of the united states. let's start with you. you say the president missed a golden opportunity. he should have linked pan am 103 with what's going on now. >> that would have sealed the deal. at the end of the speech, he said he acts on behalf of the americans. he could have easily said that 189 americans were blown out of the air in pan am flight 103. i represent those citizens and any other citizens attacked by state sponsored terrorism. he said qaddafi must go. i understand the dip low matted i can dance but he's got to make the connection to ...

>> president obama set out to clarify our mission in libya during our speech last night but he ruled out targeting muammar qaddafi. >> there is no question that libya and the world would be better off with qaddafi out of power. i along with many other world leaders have embraced that goal. and will actively pursue it through nonmilitary means. but broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake. >> so how is he going to wind up leaving? what is our end game, then? with us right now is retired u.s. army special forces captain ben collins. also, we have democratic str...