the situation i think is so important on the ground though. they had the sense that this is over. that the tribes are coming out against them and the more they bomb and shell in the towns, the more opposition is create and you have a situation where people defect from gadhafi and you have a situation which is untenable and he s in a bunker mentality. more the fact that he has the sense that the international community is not just the united states, but it s the international community that is coming down on them. they are better for everybody. one thing, the rebels are really not equipped to run this country or win this war on their own. they were routed as soon as they had a cloudy day they were route and retreated 100 miles. what this means at the end of this war, this will be so devastated, you will have to have boots on the ground and probably british and french and
another good morning to you and glad you are back. what were you doing in libya? i was just looking around. leave it at that. there we go. let s talk about what you found while you were looking around. in terms of the rebels and their ability to fight back gadhafi s forces and do this without nato coalition help. is that even possible to consider? not really. the rebel forces that you see on the ground now are lacking in something. command, control, communications and logistics. the discussion about arming the rebels versus not they got weapons and munitions. arming the rebels is not the issue that needs to be focused on. air power alone is not going to win the fight for them. what they have to have is training and a guidance for the
hello. the administration has been clear about not defining the mission as regime change. the president said this is an operation to prevent humanitarian disaster. in that sense, have they been a success? in terms of preventing the disaster in benghazi. they succeeded in 12 hour when is they drove the army back. we put 200 cruise missiles into libya, one into the compound of colonel gadhafi. we have been bombing his troops and we are the air force and navy of the rebels and hillary clinton and the president have said gadhafi must go. we won t state publicly that the objective is regime change. that is the objective of this exercise. if at the end of this bombing and killing, attacking the country that did not attack or threaten us, gadhafi is sitting there in tripoli and barack obama will have lost a war and he will be in serious trouble.
ceasefire if gadhafi stopped military offense evidence and stopped the siege, stopped using mercenaries and allowed peaceful demonstrations across libya including estate of tripoli. the op sig was saying it would offer a ceasefire if gadhafi would allow this country to be an open democracy which they haven t allowed for more than four decades. the fighting continues and it s mostly centered around the city of brega. they are standing their ground and fighting. perhaps because the military leadership, the leaders that were part of the army and defected to the rebels are playing an increasingly active role. the rebels have what they call a unified command that is let by former army units that left gadhafi and are fighting with the rebels. alex? thank you very much from benghazi. the president and the situation in libya.
alex, back to the leaking container and what officials hope they can do is try to seal that crack. they think they can seal it with concrete and that will stop that water from leaking into the ocean. what they don t know is the origin. they have have to figure out where it is. the sooner the better, clearly. thank you very much. the united states is carrying out the last combat missions, but it could be tumultuous for the nato-led opposition. an air strike hit a group of rebel fighters, killing at least 10 of them. richard engle has more from benghazi. perhaps it s not surprising that gadhafi rejected a highly conditional offer for a ceasefire that was put forward by the opposition here in benghazi. they said they would accept the