jibril a serious who gets the profession. he graduated from american university this year. gadhafi is asking to come to libya to join form and draft the constitution. he knows most of these men. i asked him about one figure who is just now emergeg from the shado shadows, a former libyan army who is now the top military commander after spending more than 20 years living in northern virginia. not much is known about him. what can you tell us about him? well, he s a very professional military man. he was in charge of the army when there was a war in the late 80s. he was arrested by the chadian government. his experience in the disastrous border war with chad in the 80s soured him on gadhafi. the most prominent is
can, but it rings hollow. moussa koussa tricked this government, tricked the leadership and has left the country and left them hanging, wolf. how significant is this defection? will it wind up hurting gadhafi? reporter: it s significant, because this was a man trusted by gadhafi, as head of intelligence all the way through to 2009, but also in the 80s, he was a man who was behind a lot of libyan terrorist actions, a wanted criminal in europe at the time. so this is a man who was trusted by gadhafi to deal with wmd, to deal with the lockerbie issue, a man who would vet visiting heads of state before they got to meet with gadhafi, so this is a man here who gadhafi had in the inner circle, whom he trusted and listened to. a moderating voice, if you will, that s no longer moderating gadhafi s actions, so nobody to
would you strike the brigades? i would go ahead and strike those brigades. should the u.s. launch air strikes against the brigades? this is now a nato mission. but fay toe won t do it with turkey and germany. s you well know. i wouldn t say that at this time. you don t know. there seems to be over the past 24 to 48 hours, senator, a really decline in air strikes pounding of libyan gadhafi positions. well, the key to this, and has been from the beginning, it begins an ends with gadhafi. i think his minister defecting in great britain is helpful. hopefully others will follow suit. i think we ll see in the next couple of days. this is the first day nato has been in charge. we ll see how they do. many military missions can be
blood on their hands are fighting in libya reporter: the deputy secretary of state responded by simply saying that it is a policy of the u.s. to defend the libyan people. and wolf, as for the defense secretary he revealed for the first time he s personally opposed to arming the rebels, even though that is a policy the administration is active discussion, and gates set no ground troops, quote, as long as i m in this job. he was adamant about that. the longer this goes on, the questioning will intensify, i am sure. thanks, dana. rebel forces in libya on the defensive as gadhafi loyalists close in. do they need more help from the coalition? short answer absolutely. just ahead an opposition leader speaking exclusively with cnn. you ll hear what he has to say. plus an american arrested in syria. while some are calling him a scapegoat.
logistics supply are a slap dash affair. the provision of fuel, food and other supplies is more a personal than a group responsibility. all of which underscores a basic fact, the rebels don t have a strategy. he says he was in libyan special forces ten years ago, and admits that even with better weaponry, the military opposition to gadhafi is leaderless at the front. group by group. every group together. is somebody thinking of a plan? maybe. maybe. sure. but i don t know why he doesn t come up. why he wait. for what? i don t know. reporter: the rebels need to come up with a plan soon because they won t be able to win this