unfortunate and stressed the incomplete nature of the assessments. the afghan government now says hundreds of inmates have escaped during a massive jail break at the main prison in kandahar city. security officials there say the taliban orchestrated the breakout and that many of the men tunneled out of the prison are insurgents. the taliban claim that over 400 inmates escaped through a tunnel they dug. officials say the plot is believed to have been in the works for more than five months. the breach comes at a critical time for southern afghanistan. the influx of experienced fighters may give renewed strength to the taliban in the region this spring. this incident also comes despite improved security at the prison following a 2008 jail break in which 900 prisoners escaped. a nato air strike has flattened a building inside moammar gadhafi s compound in tripoli in what a gadhafi official described as an attempt on the libyan leader s life.
45 were injured including 15 who were seriously hurt. this comes as some republican senators are calling on president obama to step up support for the rebels. senator john mccain was in libya over the weekend, urged president obama to ramp up operations in libya. we hope that gadhafi will crumble from within, but hope is not a strategy and it s pretty obvious to me that we need even though i was glood see the predator now in the fight, it s pretty obvious to me that the united states has got to play a greater role in the air power side. our nato allies neither have the assets nor, prankly, the will. the longer we delay, the more likely it is there s a stalemate p. and if you re worried about al qaeda entering in to this fight, nothing would bring al qaeda in more rapidly and more dangerously than a stalemate. senator lindsay graham joined senator mccain and says the
but he s only controlling the no-fly zone, the patrols. the actual naval blockade is handled by an italian admirable. as i said before, until they figure out the particulars, the most sensitive missions like bombing gadhafi s forces, that s still being controlled by the u.s. so so far there is not one specific guy over the whole thing. i don t know why we look for that. you re right, chris lawrence. not in the sense we re used to seeing, brooke. chris, thank you. staying on libya here, make sure you tune in as i will be tomorrow night, ac 360, anderson sitting down with those four new york times journalists, the ones captured and finally released by the gadhafi regime after they had been kidnapped. they ll share their story with anderson. that is tomorrow night, 10:00 p.m. eastern time. and now i want you to take a look at this, the beautiful green grasses there should not be that close to the homes. why? this is a landslide. and after weeks of watching the dramatic nucle
whitney we think is not going to be the headquarters for the libyan war. that war effort will now be run by nato. the no-fly zone part of it and the bombing gadhafi s ground troops part of it which they call something like protecting civilians. this ship named after the highest peak in the continental united states will no longer be the place from which the libyan war is run. does that mean american personnel will be doing any less of the war making in libya? and are u.s. taxpayers funding any less of the war making in libya, even if the united states military is not running it from that particular ship? answers to those questions are as yet unseen. but here is what president obama promised on that score tonight in an address about libya from e tialefsenirsy whito d. to lend some perspective on how rapidly this military and diplomatic response came together, when people were being brutalized in bosnia in the 1990s, it took the international
of violence on a horrific scale. we had a unique ability to stop that violence. and the international mandate for action, a broad coalition prepared to join us, the support of arab countries, and a plea for help from the libyan people themselves. we also have the ability to stop gadhafi s forces in their tracks without putting american troops on the ground. to brush aside america s responsibility as a leader and more profoundly our responsibilities to our fellow human beings under such circumstances would have been a betrayal of who we are. some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. the united states of america is different. the united states of america is different. but he s being very careful to talk about this particular