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Since. the troop pull-out added to that catastrophe. >> bret: the worst violence in months in iraq today. ten explosions ripping through baghdad, killing at least 72 people. as the violence increases. the white house releasing a statement, "we strongly condemn the terrorist attacks against innocent iraqis. which serve no agenda other than murder and hatred. we offer condolences to those whose loved ones were lost or wounded. attempts such as this to derail iraq's progress will fail. iraqi suffered heinous attacks likes this in the past and security forces have shown they are up to the task res...

The military offensive that we've seen unfold over the last 24 hours may not continue much longer. but gadhafi could still be entrenched in power and when he is successful and then building up some sort of ground offensive i think the nightmare a mario would be if militarily it looks like you have to send ground troops in and nobody wants to do that. so i think this is really as much a psychological warfare as it was military. >> you bring up the necessity perhaps being considered of having boot on the ground. general, you may have been listening earlier. we went to i martin an he was listenin...

With the fact that the french fighter jets have targeted military vehicles or unhappy with the fact that the french military is already doing air s surveillance over libya? >> they warned that the security council that the force will open up to more casualties and more humanitarian disasters, which is what the west and others are saying they are trying to prevent. some of this could be for national pr national presumption. this will be an interesting chess game if the violence increases. >> richard roth, thank you very much. i appreciate that. we will have more right after this. ♪ in a livin...

And also, as you see, several times today, gadhafi's war planes have actually bombed the rebel stronghold of ras lanuf. this is big headline we've been watching this and our people on the ground are telling us a lot about it. it's a vital hub of libya's oil industry and both sides are determined to seize it. also, in libya, as the violence increases, the call for international action is growing louder and louder. now, the nato military alliance is stepping up its surveillance and inching toward possible military involvement. cnn's barbara starr is at the pentagon tracking that. barbara, what...

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