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You see the libyans shooting up into the sky. you see the tracer fire. exactly how are you going to go after the targets in a populated area without risking civilian casualties? it may become a very limiting factor on how fast the coalition can move. i think by all accounts this initial round of targets has been at military bases, military installations, places where they generally do not believe according to the latest intelligence there are civilian populations. but look. gadhafi is one savvy character. just like saddam hussein. expect to see him move his troops and his weapons into the citi...

>> barbara starr, our pentagon correspondent, thank you so much. and there are so many similarities between libya tonight and the first gulf war, the scene of the tomahawk missiles cruising sending a very clear message to gadhafi like saddam hussein. >> to see him, going up in the sky, the air strikes and the fire and lighting up the night sky in tripoli is just unbelievable to witness and as you said it happened at lightning speed. from a resolution now to this and the pictures out of libya, of course, loud and violent and they're in stark contrast to japan right now, john. >> this is the oth...

In the west of libya just to the east of tripoli. but what we have seen on state television, those casualties we have seen at variance with the reports coming from the military spokesman here in libya. the casualties we've seen on state television are men, all of fighting age, a couple wearing what appear to be uniforms. they've been visited by what appeared to be a couple of military officers. they were in uniform. at least one of the people in the bed in the hospital had heavy head injuries. the other had lightly injuries. they were -- there were television crews there with them obviously, i...

Pentagon. that was done. but the white house feels very strongly that there's no point in the president, at least at this point, cutting this trip to latin america short. they feel as president of the united states, he has to juggle a lot of balls. it's not just libya. there's the disaster in japan, the potential nuclear crisis. the economic problems back home, a lot on his plate and canceling this trip is not the best move. >> and also budgetary issues up on capitol hill as well. there's a crisis potentially in the works there. he certainly does have a lot on his plate right now. ed henry is ...

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