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Take 6 hours before the u.s. gets the bomb damage assessment and once they know the surface-to-air soviet era defense systems, once they know they are out they'll send an air force global hawk to take pictures of the bomb damage assessment but listen to the vice-admiral a while ago in the briefing room: >> earlier this afternoon, over 110 tomahawk cruise missiles fired from both u.s. and british ships and submarines strapped more than 20 integrated air defense systems and facilities ashore. >> reporter: it is important to point out that while the u.s. was not the first to fire shots you had th...

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...

And see approach before the multi-lateral agreement was reached how will the world community react to president obama's latest positioning in just the latest international situation that of course being libya? >> well, i think the world is happy that the american trumpet finally sounded but are alarmed it is so unteconcern and the oba administration has not laid out any suggestion or plan as to what it ultimately intends to do. is the mission to protect a couple of the remaining enclaves from muammar qaddafi? or to overthrow muammar qaddafi's regime when the president leaks that he is interest...

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...

Attacks and they were to take out a fixed anti-aircraft placements, but those are manned by human beings and people live near there and i'm sure the casualties are quite high but we have crossed the rubicon and are using military force on behalf of the people seeking independence in libya. >> heather: and we should say the majority of those air defense system sites were along the coast there in libya. we have also been told that this is actually the first phase of a multi-phased operation. the first phase, being to shape the battle space. what do you think the sending phase will be? >> well, i...