that. with fascinating insight into muammar khadafy. thank you. kelly: we are getting breaking details. we re going to go to jennifer griffin with more details from there. reporter: we can now report there are 11 u.s. warships in the mediterranean. they are part of a coalition of 25 naval warships that are off the coast of libya. all will be involved in this coalition that will be setting up a no-fly zone. the tomahawk missiles were launched within the last hour. we do not have reports from the scene that the damage but we can tell you what the targets were. the targets are mostly around tripoli and an area called terebelesh and further to the east of surut. those three main areas are where the missiles are targeting.
perhaps you, explain to us why you are called the former ambassador to libya? i resigned race month when khadafy he used the tanks against the libyan people who decided to raise against the dictatorship regime. they were holding peaceful protests and then he used what he had at his disposal. i can t understand and the women and children are suffering and being killed. i cannot stand it anymore. kelly: we recall the vivid images of people taking to the streets of benghazi when they went out to protest. they were shouting chants of victory because they had been able to overtake benghazi but things went awry in tripoli where he hired percent nears and put his army and military against his on own people. what do you think the people are
in this conflict? ambassador is libya s former ambassador to the u.s. thank you for joining us today. obviously you are keeping a close eye on what is happening. tell us what you are anticipating after these military strikes continue in the no-fly zone is enforced in libya? thank you very much. thank you for the american help. it will make a greater change for the situation of libya. that will give libyan people help and they, they give them no choice to fight back. i think this is what libyan people was expecting and was waiting for a long time. thank you very much. thank you very much. kelly: mr. ambassador, a lot of people you are welcome. a lot of people in harm s way as they try to protect innocent people in libya who are against the regime of muammar khadafy.
going through on the ground right now now that they are saying the international forces are now going in to enforce a no-fly zone? i think this is a chance to overcome our things and get this regime out of libya. this regime that has controlled libya for the last 42 years and he has been engaged with public relations firms to give him a chance and, he has been telling lies everyday. this morning he was saying the chief of command, he would join him, rejoin him again and he came out and he said no. you have to know what his regime is doing now. they are taking a dead body from the hospital. they put them in different places in tripoli airport and in
obama at about 3:45 p.m. eastern. that is coming up. pentagon briefing that was slated for just a few minutes ago has been held until after the president speaks. we know that secretary of state hillary clinton took off from paris and the way these kinds of air operations and air assaults and attempts to set up no-fly zones in the past and other operations, awe. they take place after dark. dark has fallen on libya. that is to limit the collateral damage in firing tomahawk missiles into areas where there might be civilians but to take out these air defenses. this is all being played out according to a very careful plan. there has been a lot of planning going on at the pentagon. now, we can report that the first tomahawks have been fired. we have no assessment as to where they landed, what they were targeting other to say they were targeting khadafy s air