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Anymore. let's get right to these developments. we are joined by retired army major dr. james "spider" marks. bob baer joins us as well, he's the co-author of "the company we keep" and a former cia officer. nice to see you both, gentlemen. general marks, let's start with you. let's start with these new reports. in fact, european union wants to send ground troops to protect humanitarian efforts, but you said no matter what route this all takes you think ground troops will be inevitable. is that right? >> i do. you know, at some point there has to be a presence on the ground that at a minimum ...

Libya is not using these weapons. he also reiterated what he's been saying for a very long time, that the libyan army apparently tries to do everything to prevent civilian casualties and it can't use these munitions simply because the world is watching, he said. that, of course, something that we've heard from the libyan government before in other cases that has been seen later on the untrue. >> an excellent point there. general marks, help somebody out there watching who is not familiar with a cluster bomb, doesn't understand what it can do. >> cluster bombs are designed primarily been used a...

Time, that the libyan army apparently tries to do everything to prevent civilian casualties and it can't use these munitions simply because the world is watching, he said. that, of course, something that we've heard from the libyan government before in other cases that has been seen later on the untrue. >> an excellent pointhere. general marks, help somebody out there watching who is not familiar with a cluster bomb, doesn't understand what it can do. >> cluster bombs are designed primarily been used against armored or tank mechanized formations. you have one explosion that releases a number o...

Short of being able to train this band of rebels, weapons is a choice and as mr. hadley indicated, it's necessary for this -- for the rebels to achieve any greater success and not achieve some stalemate, which everybody has decided is unacceptable. we would all agree that a partitioned libya is not what we're looking for. >> general marks, from a military standpoint, arming folks who, you know, have just been handed a weapon for the first time and giving them an rpg, is that -- is that practical? is that easy to use? >> the notion of the gang that couldn't shoot straight might be lived out. ab...

>> general marks, what do you make of the fact that the opposition has already lost territory that they just retook and they were really only able to retake that because of the close air support from nato and coalition forces and the fact that libyan troops just basically ceded the ground. now they've already today been beaten back. we're going to talk to our correspondents on the ground there. but they're back at ras lanuf, which they had moved through quickly just yesterday. >> clearly the use of the air power from the coalition is the deciding factor for the rebels. we shouldn't be surprise...