join us. the support of arab countries, and a plea for help from the libyan people themselves. we also had the ability to stop gadhafi s forces in their tracks without putting american troops on the ground. to brush aside america s responsibility as a leader and more profoundly our responsibilities to our fellow human beings under such circumstances, would have been a betrayal of who we are. a lot more on what the president said in a moment. we ll also look tonight in an incredibly disturbing incident that looked at a tripoli hotel full of journalists. this woman was dragged away by gadhafi officials, we have updates about what s happened since. i ll talk to nick robert son about it. the gadhafi regime has told multiple conflicting stories about that woman. they first denied that
msaidn a moment. ll also look niment we ll also look tonight in an incredibly disturbing incident th loo th loo that looked at a tripoli hotel full of journalists. this woman was dragged away by gadhafi officials, we have updates about what s happened since. i ll talk to nick robert son about it. the gadhafi regime has told multiple conflicting stories about that woman. they first denied that opposition even existed on gadhafi. then they blamed it on had a louis genics. we have trouble coming up with proof of any civilian casualties that we have been responsible for. but we do have a lot of intelligence reporting about gadhafi taking the bodies of people he s killed and putting them at the sites we ve attacked. we ve been extremely careful in
opposition even existed on gadhafi. then they blamed it on had a loosuis genics. we have trouble coming up with proof of any civilian casualties that we have been responsible for. but we do have a lot of intelligence reporting about gadhafi taking the bodies of people he s killed and putting them at the sites we ve attacked. we ve been extremely careful in this military effort. is it our job to take the defense secretary at his word? we have found that whenever the libyans take correspondents out claiming to show civilian casualties, they never seem to find them. all our camera crew ever saw was bombed out military equipment. and at a staged funeral, nic robertson discovered he couldn t find any grieving family members, and the coffins were not necessarily what they seemed. reporter: it was an occasion
battle underway in the desert outside moammar gadhafi s hometown. it s going on right now, opposition forces hope to inflict a major blow against his r regime. the fighters, you see, had hoped to be inside the town right now. at the moment, their westward mow men tumentum seems to have . we ll talk to our correspondent with the opposition right now. president obama tried to explain why the u.s. intervened military as gadhafi was closing in on benghazi a little more than a week ago. at this particular moment, we were faced with the prospect of violence on a horrific scale. we had a unique ability to stop that violence. an international mandate for action. a broad coalition preached to
advance west would not be possible. in tripoli on saturday, a bizarre scene at a hotel filled with international journalists. this woman burst in screaming she had been beaten and gang raped by gadhafi s forces. look what they did to me, she scis, my honor was violated by them. libyan officials initially claimed she was a mentally ill prostitute her family maintains she s a lawyer. government minders snatched her away, throwing a bag over her head. she was dragged to a waiting car. if you don t see me tomorrow, then that s it. despite massive attention to her plight and the government claims of her release, her family says she mains locked in a government compound and no journalist has seen or heard from her since. by sunday, opposition forces