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I don't think that boots on the ground likely to happen, ben. from your perspective, are the nato air strikes useless? >> reporter: they are certainly not stopping moammar gadhafi's forces from advancing. we were at the western gate of adjdabia when it came end an intense artillery barrage by opposition forces. adjdabia is a ghost town. there is nothing to stop libyan forces from coming in here. it is a long open road from adjdabia, about 100 kilometers or miles to benghazi, the capital of opposition libya and how boots on the ground are going to help at this point as the front seems to be mov...

Years, and i have never seen anything quite like this. you know, as we speak, most of those rebels are licking their wounds, trying to figure out what to do next in ajdabiya, on the western gate. that means that the lead that you just read is already a bit old. it's about 200 miles now to the east of where they were actually hit by that wall of fire from, by the way, and we've underreported this, but we're talking about local militias that are doing the damage. armed civilians. they're in jeeps, they're in pickup trucks, they ambushed the rebels. gadhafi's weapons are being used to push them b...

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That city in weeks. richard engel is in benghazi, libya, with the latest. he joins me now on the phone. richard, the ramping up of this bombing, explain why we're seeing more today, than, say, what we saw last week? >> reporter: we're sighing an intensified effort by nato, and there's no doubt about that, with this intense series of air strikes in tripoli, targeting offices used by members of gadhafi's own compound and an intelligence building. also, the fighting is giving the rebels a bit of an advantage in the city of misrata. for weeks now, we've talked about misrata being under siege, the ...

Ra misrata. we're also hearing here in eastern libya that rebel forces are doing what they can to better organize themselves and arm themselves. a spokesman for the rebels said, in the coming days there will be advanced heavy weaponry on the front line that wasn't there before. he won't tell us which country is providing it and training to use it. we're seeing rebels using better formations on the ground and better communication between each other and how to defend the city of aujdabiya. also, better communication with nato. there is now a mandate that rebel forces are not allowed to go past t...