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Be taken in order to protect innocent civilians from their own government. it is an effort that we believe is very important and we'll look forward to coordinating closely with all those nations that are participating. thank you very much. >> [inaudible] >> shepard: secretary clinton with the details of the handover of control or at least leadership of the war in libya. let's get to jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer, what does this agreement mean here big picture, exactly? >> well, i think what we just heard from secretary of state clinton is that this is the beginning of a transition...

Heart of the matter because as we have reported, the libyans don't have very many planes and the one did that did take off today, the french destroyed it when it was on the ground. so, enforcing the no-fly zone was not really the complicated part of this equation. what hillary clinton just said is that nato agreed tonight to go back to its members and to come up with an operational plan of how to take over and if they will take over command and control of how to protect libyan civilians. that's another key part of u.n. security council resolution 1973. that is where there was some disagreement...

A military jet. it will be restricting missions over libya. >> as they were landing or shortly after they were landing, they were, in fact, attacked and destroyed by a french aircraft executing the no-fly zone in accordance with the u.n. security council resolution. >> shepard: so they shot it up after it landed. in the eastern city of ajdabiya, rebels say that rememberrives there they sent in to talk to qaddafi's forces to try to get them to surrender. their last representative never returned. and the rebels say the talks have apparently failed at very least. and at a rebel check point a few ...

And is it your sense that that will be a continuing struggle and problem? >> no, of course it's going to be a continuing struggle because it is not the mission. the mission is defined by the united nations. but the ultimate fate of libya is going to depend on his leaving. and that means -- for libya to survive. become strong democratic state in the middle east. he has got to go. >> shepard: you just made enormous jump democratic state under any circumstances that would be a perfect world for the united states and allies and probably for the rest of the world. we don't even know who the vast ma...

Ground game that's keeping libya, that's keeping qaddafi back on his heels, being able to advance his armor. i think the larger picture for the obama administration would be to get nato overseeing that undertaking as well. >> shepard: john busy, assistant managing editor from the "wall street journal," comprehensive reporting there at wsj.com and at foxnews.com. john, thanks a lot. live to the white house next as news is breaking on the war in libya. it's almost the bottom of the hour. that means top of the news right after a commercial break on fox report. on. sovereign of the security line. ...