we ve seen the air strikes here around tripoli increase over the past couple of days, as nato is saying it s taking out the command and control infrastructure that gadhafi has here, telecommunication installations, here in tripoli as well as in sitre and those ammunition dumps. what they re trying to do is prevent gadhafi from communicating with his forces in misurata, as well as on the eastern front and trying to take his ammunitions away from him. also, as you mentioned, nato saying that they re going to step up that air campaign and they re warning civilians in libya to stay away from military installations. as you see them using predator drones and robert gates saying he believes the first predator strikes might have already started. we know from iraq and afghanistan that the predators are very, very good at precisely taking out targets and they can stay in an area of operation for a long time, hover there, find the targets and take them out.
serte. they struck telecommunication installations there. it was both land line as well as mobile telecommunications to try to stop gadhafi s forces from communicating with the people on the front line. tell us what s happening east of tripoli in misrata, where we understand the violence is getting worse. i know you ve been there. how important is misrata for both sides? well, it s certainly very important for both sides. important for gadhafi, because is it is the final strong hold in western libya. it s a thorn in his side, really. for the rebels, it s important, because the rebels are trying to stay alive in that place. the violence continues unabated. one person was in the hospital there, said he saw at least 20 bodies in the hospital of people