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>> i remember seeing one of them going off about ten miles off my nose, which blew up a brand new site just put in place by the libyans. >> he says the libyans were overwhelmed. >> i don't think the libyans had us on radar. i think they were surprised. it was obvious we had caught them by surprise. you know, we were 200 feet above the sea, mediterranean sea. we had our radars off. we had our lights off. it was all done on timing. the tactical part of it was beautifully synchronized. beautifully done. >> they haven't updated the anti-aircraft much in the decade since his mission. there's still ...

She has more. barbara? >> wolf, defense secretary robert gates has been saying for days that a no-fly zone over libya amounts to combat. i talked earlier today to a retired naval officer who has actually done it. it's been done before. in the no-fly zone over iraq, u.s. war planes patrolled for over a decade, bombing targets, trying to keep the iraqi military boxed in. retired admiral john nafman commanded piloting flying the missions. it wasn't always easy. >> in southern iraq we tried to blow up one of these sector operation centers probably ten different times. >> reporter: then ask nathman...

Several days, contacting all the members of the press team here for the libyan government and then suddenly one night we got a knock on our door and they said you have to come straight away. we got our things together and within a few minutes we were rushed into this palace behind tripoli's green square and rather quickly the leader and his entourage came, and it was quite a surreal experience but yes he was much calmer than you might expect. >> did you get any sense that this is a guy that is ready to fight for the death or maybe down the road he could leave libya and save his life? >> report...

It's very hard to prove. if somebody is paying them to go there it certainly seems there's an element that everyone doesn't want to appear less fervent than the last guy. you get a sense it's part coercion and part commitment. it's the type of people who don't want to seem to be letting the sight down. they don't know what they may mean for them. >> some of them are afraid if they don't do it they could be in trouble. finally, there seems to be new diplomatic outreach that the libyan regime is now undertaking. what are they doing? >> that's right, wolf, they're extremely frustrated they can't ...

The white house hasn't yet made up its mind. too bad we don't have an adult in the white house like we do at the state department. ram in california says absolutely the stronger more resolute voice consistently has been hillary clinton's. she warned pressure sheptsly in doha that the foundations of progress in the middle east are "sinking into the sand" and the region faces disaster without real reforms. events starting with tunisia right through egypt have proven her right. raich writes neither. talk is cheap. both obama and clinton can talk till they're blue in the face and the result will b...