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This morning on "world news now" -- dramatic defection. moammar gadhafi's foreign minister flees libya. >> his resignation and departure happens as american lawmakers consider sending money to help libya's rebels. it's thursday, march 31st. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." and good morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. >> i'm peggy bunker. libya's opposition forces lost a big battle over a big oil-producing territory. we'll investigate these rebels and see who's really behind them. >> big controversy whether we should send money -- >> or send weapons, right. also ahea...

Those levels are twice as high as the u.n.'s recommended level for evacuations. we could learn more about u.s. military involvement in libya during hearings on capitol hill today. the defense secretary and also joint chiefs of staff are expected to testify before the house armed services committee. meanwhile, libyan leader moammar gadhafi has suffered a major setback. larry jacobs reports. >> reporter: libyan foreign minister flew to england and resigning his post to protest regime's attacks on civilians. once a close ally of moammar gadhafi and a senior official for 15 years, musa kusa's de...

White house officials are worrying about today. >> a little boy on his 14th birthday gets a horse. everybody in the village says, how wonderful the boy got a horse. the master says, we'll see. two years later the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg and everybody in the village says, how terrible. the master says, we'll see. then a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight except the boy can't because his leg is messed up and everybody in the village says, how wonderful. >> and the master says, we'll see. >> reporter: law of unintended consequences. white house officials...

That of a fair chance. >> reporter: in that case the freedom fighters eventually became the taliban, al qaeda and other affiliated groups. something very much on the mind of white house officials as they debate arming the libyan opposition. what do we know about them? >> we don't know as much as we would like to know and as much as we expect we will know. >> reporter: the opposition's official representatives seem credible to the white house but serious questions remain about who the rebels are on the ground, as acknowledged by nato's top commander. >> we have seen flickers in the intelligence...