charge but we will worry about that later. defeating khadafy is the strategic objective. jamie: when we talk about insurgents in iraq we talk about one personality and we go on to afghanistan another more tribal. what are we dealing with there. what the potential for defections that are pro khadafy turning the other way? we need to be very aware of at this point in time otherwise we ll be surprised later. number one, if khadafy loses the battle of benghazi and along the coast to tripoli we re going to see more units defecting am people that were not encouraged before to do so doing so. but at the same time once he is defeated as a regular army he is going to conduct or successor is going to conduct a warfare who is going to install himself in tripoli. we re up for a long journey. it s not going to be easy game.
we do not have any thinking being flying toward benghazi. it will be set up with u.s. in control providing command and control for french and other warplanes that will be involved. they plan to transition, we understand it according to pentagon source, we plan to transition in the coming days that command and control over the coalition but in the initial days while the u.s. is leading to take out khadafy s air defense systems, they will be using what is being described as unique capability that will include electronic jamming devices as well as tomahawk missiles, they can be fired from the two destroyers the u.s.s. stout and u.s. the berry a as well as three submarines. u.s.s. move dense as well as two others, u.s.s. florida and a
but so far the french reaction has sent a strong message that other attacks could take place other than the french later. that would reverse it. if that is done, all those that have been supplying and supporting khadafy with all sorts of resources are thinking twice. they will see the international community in action against khadafy forces. jamie: many citizens, not just those in libya that are awaiting justice. could this be it for him? i think if the opposition is enabled and trained and logistics are there to supply to begin the counter offensive. stopping him from benghazi is one thing but rolling his forces back to the city of sert and to tripoli will be the fall of khadafy. what we re going to see a new libya. that is not clear what the political forces will be in
defense system. he has sent a letter to the president and he has no intention of backing down and the form libyan ambassador said until khadafy goes, no one there will be safe. to you get any indication from the pentagon that he is budging? reporter: there is no indication that he is budging. but we have not heard from anyone either is any of coalition allies plan to target khadafy himself. remember back in 1982 when president ronald reagan sent missiles into tripoli to antarctica colonel khadafy after the bombing of that u.s., service members, remember that they were khadafy was to survive and we had the lockerbie bombing after. that there is very big concern at the pentagon if khadafy
steve harrigan. let me ask you, who at this point, given the u.n. resolution and the support of many member nations including the u.s., who does khadafy have on his side right now? right now, i don t think he has anybody. he says he doesn t have russia or china and more extreme countries, yemen, i m sure he doesn t have the president of yemen on his side either. i think he an isolated figure and surrounded by a lot of percent nears he has been paying with this huge war chest he has accumulated over the years that is in libyan banks, never went abroad. he has a lot of money to do a lot of damage. it remains to be seen, i personally doubt it. i think his days are numbered. let s hope he doesn t get the opportunity to spend any of