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I assume, a lot of them have those stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, which would -- very mobile and they could take down a plane. they could get lucky and do it. chris, thanks very much. chris is going to stay with us. jon, this is a war, for all practical purposes. it was a civil war. but now it's expanded. >> and we have called it a no-fly zone that the united nations resolution established. but essentially, the u.n. wrote a blank check for everything short of an army of occupation. so in many ways, the no-fly zone is the first step and this is the first day. but there could be ...

You would use fighter jets, bomber jets to do this. this is not from libya but a marine operation in the past. you crater the runway to prohibit takeoffs and landings. they can be filled in of course but any time they're filled in from satellite imagery you would see the activity happening out here. so this also would be a target. we've not been told about this happening in the early hours. but you can be certain a key priority take out his ability to take off and land those jets if he doesn't get the message from the initial hours of the bombings, wolf. >> all right, good point, john. thanks ...

Means necessary to protect civilians. so sending weapons and arms to the rebels, not necessarily out of the question. >> not out of the question at all. there was a "wall street journal" report last night that there were arms coming into the opposition by land across the border from egypt. i tried to research that with a couple of senior administration officials. none of them would confirm it, that arms were coming into the opposition across land in egypt, essentially with the u.s. knowledge. and neither official would confirm it although one did say, it's quite interesting, isn't it? >> very ...

Type of weapons very much in the past. but certainly the sounds that were coming up, sporadic gunfire. there's nothing apparently in the sky for them to shoot at. but those sounds certainly coming up. we've seen more security out on the streets as we came through the city. government buildings being protected by armed civilians, traffic intersections being protected or controlled by armed police and very little traffic out on the streets as we came back towards our hotel here. perhaps an hour or so, an hour and a half after those first missiles hit libya. there go some more anti-aircraft gunfi...

Him. this is not something that's peculiar to the situation in libya. we've seen this in other countries. iraq, for example, when it was targeted in 2003 and saddam hussein was overthrown, in the fir beginnings of the attacks there by the international coalition, people rallied behind the leadership there. so it's not unusual to hear that rhetoric here. and it's very hard to penetrate and get beyond whether this is just rhetoric or whether people feel they have to speak this way to us as foreigners. but it is -- i do have to say when people communicate this to us, it is very passionate and the...