see her dad later in the night but master sergeant philip sharpe arrived home from iraq hours earlier. aw. that s precious. this morning a second win for libya s rebels. they are marching toward gadhafi s hometown after a weekend of victories. we ll take you inside libya for a look at their progress. and a cobra has gone missing at the bronx zoo in new york. yeah, a cobra. a poisonous cobra. we ll talk to jack hanna at 9:40. hi. i m dan hesse, ceo of sprint.
forces not been involved, not been engaged that hundreds of thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of people, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people would have been massacred. but he can t really backtrack on what he said before this no-fly zone was implemented. that gadhafi must go. do you think he ll back away from that now or will that sentiment still be in his speech tonight? i think that sentiment will remain. and how the white house has been playing this is that there were two things that were going on here. first of all, there was the mission with the coalition forces to establish this no-fly zone in order to protect the innocent people of libya. but in addition to that, that the united states very much wants to see gadhafi go. how will they be able to push that? well, they believe that through the economic sanctions, perhaps even through those around gadhafi will apply pressure to him and eventually force him out. but that, you know, the timing as to when that will happen
kinds of weapons that those opposition those rebels behind you are using. well, the truck that you see right there, that s got an anti-aircraft machine gun mounted on to the back of it, as does the one next to it. most of those around here have the anti-aircraft machine guns. we also do see them with other lighter machine guns. they are carrying ak-47s. we ve also seen them carrying some very old, old weapons. basically all that they ve been able to find. and this is partly why they ve been struggling because they ve been saying they don t have the weapons and the equipment that they need to go up against gadhafi s armor, to go up against the artillery and the tanks. carol if you ll notice as well, none of these fighters is wearing body armor or any sort of protective gear.
government. we have u.s. and international organizations that help with this, like the international republican institute, national democratic institute. but is that one step ahead? don t you have to arm the rebels and like stop the civil war before you do that? no, actually, i think the most important thing is to figure out who is in charge there and help them set out a political platform. because there is momentum against gadhafi now. and gadhafi s forces are going back and this momentum will continue. so rather than pouring arms in which would take several days to make any difference anyway, to get to the rebels, and having to put trainers in to explain the use of the arms, that momentum is going. as the rebels move to the west against gadhafi, i believe they will pick up momentum. and, therefore, if i were advising behind the scenes, i d be suggesting that this is a time to really work with the
well, i think it had a lot to do with the air strikes. the coalition air strikes that started saturday. and there s no question that the momentum has shifted. i don t think too many people could have predicted in a matter of three days, these opposition forces would gain about 200 miles in territory and capture about five key cities. but that s exactly what has happened. the latest town to go into the habds of opposition forces, the town of ben jawad. and i think this surge, this shift in momentum started on saturday with the capturing of ajdabiya. coalition air strikes playing a key role in softening up the gadhafi targets, enabling the rebel fighters to move into ajdabiya. after that brega fell, ra ras lanuf. and now eyeing gadhafi s hometourngs his birthplace of sirte. overnight some reports that sirte had fallen into the hands