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It sounds like the u.s. will be in charge of a big part of this operation. >> this is still unfolding. how does that jive with what jay carney said that u.s. planes would not be involved in the second phase of the mission in libya. it would be an assist and support role. it will be interesting to see how this lines up with the desire of the administration. that's to see libya without moammar gadhafi. you heard from the president and other senior officials saying he must go. he shows no signs of going away. how will this lead to the desire to see gadhafi out of libya? i think it's unclear at th...

Bases that are currently crucial. >> if arab support is crucial and it is crucial in this situation, who are they saying they would rather see take the lead in this? >> well, it's not clear. obviously the arab league want to make sure that they have some kind of involvement in this. there's reluctance on the part of the arab countries, particularly the arab league to contribute forces to a mission that would be run by the nato military alliance because of the negative associations that nato alliance has with its campaign in afghanistan and involvements in other wars, as well. and so the idea i...

Launched from this vessel. and two support helicopters with a team of 30 marines went out to try and recover the pilot. he was picked up, brought back here in the very early hours of tuesday morning, and is currently in the medical facilities here onboard. and we also know that his weapons officer picked up by rebel forces and looked after by them has also been recovered and is currently in a hospital, which is a u.s. air force base up in the north of italy, zain. >> diana, what are the troops onboard the ship that you're on telling you about what they think of the libya operation? >> reporter...

Civilians. cnn's arwa damon is standing by to take us to the front lines. has the u.s. found anyone to take demand of the libya operation right now? what happens if gadhafi remains in power for any extended period of time? i'll ask the president's deputy national security adviser, dennis mcdunna, he's standing by live. and black smoke at a crippled reactor and radioactive tap water in tokyo. we have the latest on japan's nuclear crisis. we'll hear from an american who was inside the nuclear power plant when an earthquake struck. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." allied aircra...

Over libya would be unwilling and reluctant. the british have also been resisting the idea of an anglo-french command structure. they want it to be under nato's command. and they seem to have gotten their way in the sense of some sort of compromise deal being discussed at the moment in brussels that would give nato the command structure, the nato military command structure, the day-to-day running overall charge of the military operations in eastern libya. but the political oversight provided not by the north atlantic, normally the case in a nato operation, but instead by the foreign ministers ...