she experienced during that flight. alisyn: oh, it s hair raising, having to live through that, but the silver lining, they re redoubling their efforts to make sure that planes are safe today. dave: mechanics are on their game told. and the fight rages on between the rebels and gaddafi forces. as they battle for brega. connor powell joins us from brega, what s the late snes. the fighting continues in the key oil city of brega, also a large city, third large city in libya misurata. two of the main areas where you ve had continuous fighting for a couple of days and in the last few minutes we ve heard a continuous volley of rockets and rebel positions going towards brega and toward the gaddafi forces and ambulances coming back from the front so there s heavy fighting going in the city of
clayton: there was. alisyn: charlie wilson s war. so, if the united states arms the rebels in libya, will it back fire just as it did in charlie wilson s war? former cia director james woolsey joins us. good morning. good morning. alisyn: the point that have movie, sometimes you think that you re doing something that s in america s interest or humanitarian reasons and it has unintended consequences. do you think that will happen in libya. things always have unintended consequences when you ge et into violence, but you know, nearly 70 years ago we armed a man who at that point was history s greatest murderer, josef stalin because we needed him against the nazis and when he rolled into eastern europe, he he rolled in on wheels, and these things happen that way and you ve got to think each call as you go along. i think he we were right back in afghanistan, and, but we might have done it a bit more
brega and hearing reports of large amounts of large civilian casualties in misurata, according to doctors there. so there s very heavy fighting though it doesn t appear that either side is particularly getting the upper hand. gaddafi forces are dug in and are managing to repel a lot of the rebels attacks. i ve heard in the last day or so, particularly this morning, that some of the gaddafi military that detected to the rebel side have begun to take a larger role in the fighting pushing back some of the rag tag rebels and sort of helping trying to organize them and they re becoming a little bit more organized and professional with a result of the detectors from the gaddafi forces. right now we ve sort of settled into a stalemate. fighting is intense between the oil city of brega and the largely civilian city of misurata. . oh. from libya this morning, i found so striking, the rebels
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getting back to the front line. a spokesman for uganda s president tells the associated press the country has history of granting asylum to anybody who wants it. that includes qaddafi. it lies south and east of libya. it it appears to be the first nation to offer public asylum. they would have to agree to leave. battling on the growkd indicate he is not ready to give up. steve harrigan begins fox top coverage. the addiction to the back and forth in the middle of northern libya there. the two sides are also fighting battles closer to where you are. that s right, shepard. a very critical battle and the third largest city in libya misurata, 130 miles away country, government force does not really have completed coal