the fate of the prisoners is unknown. on monday, opposition forces continued their march west toward gadhafi s hometown but on the way encountered resistance. their advance was halted at um al gadeel. opposition forces had to pull back to the town of bin jawad. in misrata, cnn was finely granted access and discovered a city destroyed. gadhafi s forces claim they control the town, our team was stopped a few miles from the center of the city, suggesting the battle continues as does the
will the crowd hang him when they catch him? that s the fate of most of these dictators. so long as the opposition was fighting alone and living alone they had no hope whatsoever. he was coming for them in benghazi, now they are moving into his territory. that has been achieved. the american investment has been modest. let the british and the french come in, let the qatari s come in. make it an international initiative which it s become. i see david gergen, you re shaking your head, why? i love fouad ajami, i think his analysis are so cogent. when sarkozy or cameron commit themselves, that matters in europe, but not to the world. when the president of the united states commits to a course of action, that matters to the world. if he pledges he s going to get rid of gadhafi, and he does not succeed at that, it s going to
she shows journalists blood on her inner thigh and rope burns on her hands and feet. my honor was violated she cries out. many at the hotel try to separate her from the men trying to drag her away. this man appears to be going for a weapon. gadhafi s men kick and punch journalists, wrestling some of them to the ground. breaking their cameras for their footage. the woman continues to cry out her story. watch as this woman throws a dark bag over her head to silence her. a little while later she surfaces as officials drag her out of the hotel. if you don t see me tomorrow,
a very strong case for intervention itself. on humanitarian grounds. he made a compelling case that the united states has helped to organize the international coalition, much more rapidly as has happened in the past, like bosnia. he made a compelling case that these early u.s. actions have done what the u.s. promised to do. that was to stop gadhafi from killing other people. that s where the success of the speech ended. because he left open all these questions about where we go from here. if there s a stalemate, and there were signs today that there may be a stalemate. what are we going to do? what is nato going to do? who knows? i don t think anybody knows that. what is going to happen if gadhafi hangs in there for six months? we don t know. what happens if gadhafi gets forced out? and the regime cracks, they turn on him and assassinate him? what s the united states role going to be in building a new libya? i thought that was left cloudy, and is going to continue the
gunfire. we saw them beating quite a hasty path away from this area. fire into the air, that gadhafi s military was trying to outflank them. we asked them what their next move was going to be. because they said they had to go back into this area and clear it. if the civilians have not evacuated, this has an entire new dynamic. if we start seeing pro and anti-gadhafi forces, civilians clashing in these neighborhoods, lots of bloodshed could be unimaginable. nic robertson in tripoli, what sort of reaction do you think the gadhafi regime will have to president obama s comments tonight. the president made very clear that the mission as he sees it, that nato is now going to be operating under, is not to remove gadhafi miltly, they want to try to get him out through nonmilitary means.