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Ship originally designed for a normandy style marine invade the beach type of operation. today it's a ship that has mass commander and control capabilities and able to take together all of the coalition nations, various aircraft, various times and put them into a manner that they can be able to do it safely and be able to allow the potential for the development as it comes out in libya. as you say how it unfolds. but at least it's been done safely to start with. >> some mideast analysts have said there is a risk this no-fly zone can become cover for a widening civil war in libya. what do we kn...

Evacuated. officials do not know what is causing the smoke this time. his air defenses are crippled and a four-story building in his compound is in ruins but where is moammar gadhafi? that's one of the big questions in libya this morning after the co coalition launched more than 100 cruise missiles. nic robertson is live for us in tripoli. any indication where gadhafi is right now? >> reporter: at this moment we don't. the compound that we were taken to last night where there was the damaged building hit by a missile, two missiles indeed, there was no indication then that he had been around ...

System is all but crippled this morning. a four-story building in his compound is also severely damaged. since saturday, a barrage of cruise missiles have hit libya, more than 120 of them. live on the front lines in tripoli, a place that has been subject to a lot of missiles this weekend. good morning, nic. what's the situation on the ground as you know it? >> reporter: ali, it's been pretty quiet here for the last 12 hours or so. occasional bursts of anti-aircraft gunfire. but the huge explosions we heard last night and we are taken to a building inside moammar gadhafi's grounds. it's an area...

Gadhafi himself. in fact, it wasn't a personal attack on him, but we feel it's a legitimate target because he does have these command and control abilities out of that place. let's take you back a little bit to tell you what led up to that strike last night. this all started with missiles flying from u.s. and british ships on saturday. they fired from the mediterranean sea for one reason. that's because the first target was colonel gadhafi's long-range ballistic missiles. those have a range of 150 to 180 miles offshore. those were the first targets and that's why the coalition. after the frenc...

For the rebels to be able to utilize the best resources so that libyans are controlling their own destiny. >> the other question is whether or not what libya looks like in the weeks and months to come. includes gadhafi still in power. mike mullen also said there's a chance he could stay. it's within the, you know, the hands of the libyan people. do you see that? and there was some criticism of that. i think it was senator liberman who said if he stays, that makes us look weak in the eyes of the world. >> well, i think that the military effort so far is what has been required to do the no-fly z...