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It is our duty to respond to their anguished appeal. the future of libya belongs to the libyans. we do not seek to decide for them. their fight for freedom is theirs. our intervention, alongside arab people, is not with a few to imposing any specific outcome on them, but in the name of the universal conscience that will not tolerate such crimes. today, we are intervening in libya under the united nations security council mandate. alongside our partners. we are doing this to protect the civilian populations from the murderous madness from a regime that has killed its own people.

France is shouldering its role in history. thank you. >> there are more points of view coming out of paris. we will get to our state department correspondent jill dougherty in a moment. meantime, i'll let you get back to northeastern libya. we have arwa damon there. what kind of activity are you seeing where you are? >> reporter: fredricka, in the city of benghazi is where we saw the assault earlier today. so far, it seems the opposition does manage to obtain control of the city. it does appear the opposition did manage to drive out colonel gadhafi's advancing tanks and military units. one eye...

And canadians met under the secretary-general. together, we have decided to ensure the application of the security council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire and end the violence to civilians in libya. participants agreed to use all the necessary means, in particular military means, to enforce the security council decisions. this is why an agreement without partners, our air force wi will oppose any aggression of gadhafi in benghazi. as of now, our aircraft are preventing planes from attacking the town.

If you are the coalition enforcing this that you have adequate force that this wasn't a one-time tap. no bombing. this is a continuous application of force until gadhafi breaks. >> general, let me ask you this, we have the confirmation now. cnn confirmed that the u.s. has launched the first missiles against libya. if that is the case following the military activity we have been talking with the french. >> it sounds to me like it is moving toward escalation. that is important because in an operation like this, once you are engaged, you have to achieve escalation dominance. if you don't achieve ...