are apparently going on. yeah, because the burning question right now, we heard a lot of talk about it on capitol hill today, is whether or not to arm the rebels. the president, we also learned today, has everything inlace in case a decision is made to directly help them. but as the rebels keep getting hammered as they have over the last several days, is the clock ticking, richard? is the president running out of time? well, if you get into a car and drive behind me in that direction for an hour and a half, you will reach gadhafi s army. that is not the situation that was on the ground here a few days ago. you would have had to drive for five or six hours to reach gadhafi s troops. they were pushed back to the edge of cerd, gadhafi s home town. now they are pretty much on the edge of bengazi. what a reversal. you talk about arming the rebels. we went to that rebel front line, just down that road today, and what we saw was nothing less
controlled by the regime. look where we are today. controlled green. that is controlled by the opposition. the pentagon insists it s not coordinating with this opposition but little doubt that the campaign has been to tilt the battlefield more in the opposition s favor. the opposition forces back in control of several of the key cities in the east but perhaps beginning to hit road blocks as they start and try to march west towards libya. what is the sense of the opposition that is clearly resur jent but beginning to face obstacles? john, it most certainly is. we saw the opposition moving fairly quickly thanks to the air strikes through critical oil towns, and then today they hit a small town that is getting closer to sirte, gadhafi s home
three, we are told by nato forces the no fly zone is in effect, that would include the area here on the map, and everything north of that, in yellow. this was a quick operation, apparently some of the fixed locations, the united states and allies and britain and france have known about the locations for the past 20 years. here s tripoli, the capitol city. you ll hear about misrata, and also the town of surt, gadhafi s home town. benghazi is the location where the rebels are today, and you can and you can make the case based on the s on the maps we ve looked at in the far northeastern section of the country is where the rebels can operate, where they have control, the rest appears to be even though there s a no fly zone in effect, appears to be under the control of mommar gadhafi. welcome back, dan, good morning to you. general tom mcinerny, fox
they are right now calling a meeting with tribal elders to try to find a way to avoid more bloodshed. if they have to?ready to fight if we have to, yes. everyone here is trained, we all have our weapons. we want a peaceful resolution to this conflict. but if peaceful resolution is out of the table, then armed conflict it is. reporter: bani walid, a city of 50,000 southeast of tripoli, so remains under loyalist control. so are farts of stab ha, further south in the desert. so is sirte, gadhafi s home town. rebels know gadhafi and sell of his sons were in bani walid days ago. they believe gadhafi has fled further south into the desert. within a few days you think you can finish this whole thing? god willing, he says, today or tomorrow, bani walid will be free. gadhafi loyalists have to know they are both outgunned and outmanned. as for the rebels their military leader told us he won t consider this revolution over until