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Statement and offer you all to ask a few questions about operational matters. this will not be a lengthy engagement. >> good afternoon, thank you for coming everyone. as you know we are leading edge of coalition military operations designed to enforce united nations security resolution 1973 in libya. the goal of pliagsz are twofold, first to prevent further attacks by regime forces on libyan citizens and opposition grouped in and around benghazi. second to degrade the regime's capability to degrade the no-fly zone. to that end earlier this afternoon over 110 tomahawk cruise missiles fired from...

Jordan, united arab emirates and adequater they say arab participation has been crucial so far. >> heather: the french, they have taken the most visible lead today. what are they doing? >> molly: n car car hosted the meeting today in paris it indicated afterwards that french fighter jets at the time was patrolling the skies above a key rebel stronghold in libya would have to take a more aggressive position. >> our effort will oppose any aggression by colonel khadafy against the population of benghazi. as is now, our aircraft are is preventing planes from attacking the ground. our french aircra...

Question, secretary of state clinton said no ground troops and president obama repeated it, we heard it again in the pentagon briefing, do you think that we can accomplish our task and our goal with aircraft alone? >> likely not. we didn't in bosnia or southern iraq. likely you have other nations have special operating forces, that i would be incredibly surprised that if they are not in benghazi. they have high technology capabilities to talk to people all over the world and, of course, the aircraft that are coming in. with that and our sensors, we have, i think, a pretty good situation awaren...

Were not targeting the area around benghazi but will create a no-fly zone that will protect benghazi where the rebels are. we also know there are 11 u.s. naval assets involved in this operation and include two destroyers, the uss barry and the u.s.st stout, three submarines, the uss florida and the uss providence and tomahawks are fired from destroyers or submarines and would not be specific about which ships fired the 112 tomahawks earlier and the admiral's assessment of the situation is that the air defense system that qaddafi had, similar to that that saddam hussein had in iraq, consisted o...

Unconfirmed reports, destroying four tanks in that area around benghazi as well, heather, back to you. >> heather: no doubt as you said, the war will also be fought in propaganda, you said you hadn't heard any missile strikes or crashes. did you hear ambulances rushing by? a report said they were taking the casualties via ambulances to hospitals. >> reporter: no, no sounds of ambulances, either, though libyan officials say their hospitals are filling up with casualties. as far as the reaction from the government, here, colonel qaddafi has not been seen in recent hours, he was supposed to appea...