that s exactly right. typically the cia will have people at the embassy who are undercover in a literal sense, but practically speaking are there just going to dinner parties, trying to make contact and monitor the libyan government. then they have paramilitary operatives. they function kind of like what we think of in the movies of guys going in behind enemy plains and plain clothes with long beards. the guys are on the ground with libya now are the bearded variety. not the sitting behind the desk rather. help me with this. we ve also heard reports that the cia officers and special ops have helped to identify targets using handheld equipment during this no-fly zone enforcement. what do you know about that? and how involved are they? you know, it s very interesting. because that s a close parallel as we think back about a decade to how the afghan war started. you had cia operatives on horseback riding off with the northern alliance, using what are called laser spotters. these are