there can, for instance, cut off the flow of natural gas to the eastern part of libya to benghazi. that s a strategic place which obviously moammar gadhafi would like to get control of because that would give him huge leverage over parts of the country over which he now has no control whatsoever. john. ben wedeman and his crew doing great work. tay safe. you heard him use the word leverage. the united states and its allies trying to get military leverage over gadhafi. look at these. this is the uss kearsarge moving through the suez canal making its way from the red sea into the mediterranean so that it can come around and be part of the noose that they want to place militarily around libya. s that a the kearsarge and