why not the dictator in syria? why not the dictator in iran? that s the that s the larger issue. you would support that then, too? would i support and have supported a doctrine that is not situational ethics. you want the security force to get rid of bashar assad and ahmadinejad? you go in you have to go in to win and need a clear exit strategy. but they are not going into syria and iran. they are going into libya? what s the difference. you know this region better that be most of these people who are in government today. what is the difference between assad and gadhafi? what is it? syria, we could argue for our interests, we have a greater strategic interest in syria given its geography as jill just pointed out, and its interaction with al qaeda than we do in libya. the point being that if bashar assad or ahmadinejad were on the verge of doing what gadhafi was on the verge of doing in benghazi, slaughtering tens of thousands of people, would the u.s., would the obama
retake control of this city. we saw on both entrances lines of gadhafi s tanks turned. their turrets had been ripped off and their armor melted to the ground. basically the opposition has been able to push gadhafi s military back because of that air support, but over the last two days we ve seen gadhafi s military regrouping, reattacking and turning this into something of a street-to-street bat. yesterday they came across us when they entered one small area that surrounds 60 miles to the east of gadhafi s hometown of sirte. their residents fired on them. they were forced to flee. they say today in bin jawad, not only artillery and tank fire, also a street-to-street battle. this is not something that the opposition is trained for. this is not a military force. they lack equipment. they lack weaponry. they lack the military basics of being able to conduct thorough
nationwide is on your side we re just getting in some new information on the case of that woman who burst into a tripoli hotel this weekend to tell foreign reporters she had been raped by gadhafi s government troops. she was dragged away, communication with her has since been cut off. now cnn s reza sayah tracked down the woman s family. and her mother described the awful experience to reza. like much of the world, she, too, saw the disturbing pictures on television on saturday.
seeing right now is a setback for the rebel. some are already suggesting, you know what, with nato taking charge. gadhafi s troops are emboldened. they are really going after the rebels, and that s idea rebels are being set back in various places on this date. do you see a correlation between nato s taking over and the new setbacks the rebels are facing? no, none, but i do see a correlation with the weather, and i understand there was cloud cover in libya today, and that cloud cover increases the risk for the airmen and one of the commanders probably said there s a minimum altitude that we re going to stay above, and we re not going to go below that altitude. that s typical of the way we operate. we stayed above 20,000 feet in dose voerks a kosovo, and when it was cloud covered we weren t as successful spotting targets on the ground. we re seeing a-130 gunships and you fly those planes a lot
how are they doing, arwa? what s the latest? reporter: well, wolf, it s been another bitterly disappointing day for the opposition here. they have lost even more ground to gadhafi s military. we caught up with them in an area called bin jawad, the last point that they had managed to advance to yesterday, and they were coming under heavy artillery tank and rocket fire. they were then forced to retreat from this area, losing not only bin jawad but the entire road in between bin jawad and the critical oil town of ras lanuf. and there in ras lanuf on the western outskirts we saw plumes of smoke rising. we heard explosions. we saw the opposition trying to fire back with artillery with multiple rocket-barreled launchers, and we saw units, reinforcements coming in time to protect the time because they are determined not to lose it at