lieutenant charles bouchard is picked to run the day-to-day operations. retired major general james spider marcus is a former commanding general of the u.s. army intelligence center. identi does it make sense to take over the no-fly zone when the coalition is supposed to protect civilians on the ground? i think nato truly has command and will continue to have command. and it s not an academic discussion, but it s the diffence between command and control. command is a legal term. it has to do with shaping operations and what the in ste looks like. control is technical. how do you communicate, how do you choose targets? which aircraft goes after each target? which nation s aircraft are assigned against different kinds of targets. so natohas command of the operation and the three-star canadian general clearly is already within the nato structure. he s from allied forces south,
space. not the kind of place you want something like this to happen. yeah, absolutely. right now it s monitored from a regional facility, which is one reason the tower staffing is so sparse. clearly, you need to have a lot of sharp eyes on that air space. all right, great. thanks so much, mr. voss, and we ll keep in touch with you, because this is an interesting story. certainly is, thank. back to the unfolding situation in japan, there s word of a possible breach at that nuclear plant, meaning aid ra radiati radiation could be leaking. d as more japanese evacuate, do americans have anything to worry about? what about our food? the fact and tnehe fiction comi up next. also, i ll talk to a congressman who was just on that conference call with preside obama talking about the operation in libya. free-nights. .and free breakfast at hotels in virtually every city. so, thanks to this large man in a little jetpack. you can search thousands of hotel freebies. right now only at pricelin
catastrophe there, and that sometimes presidents have to act. i think they re also going to ask questions about what the end game is and also how we define our mission. we have said that gadhaf must go, but the united nations security council said this is a humanitarian mission and so does nato. so how do we work our air-to-ground capability if we re going to continue to do that as part of the nato operation? you know, there are lots of serious operational questions when you have to foot the bill. so we ve been hearing the president is going to talk about libya to the nation in the very near future. right. but not today. we re trying to find out. when? any idea? and why has it tan so long? soon. well, i think in a way it s been deliberate. he s had hillary clinton out there, he s had gates, his secretary of defense, out there. because they believe they want to draw a distinction. this is not going to war in
i ve seen him over the years. this is the guy who s responsible, but he s geot a tough mission, because the president of the united states says the u.s. policy is that gadhafi must go. but that s not the strategy, that s not the policy that general ham and the u.s. military have been given. they have a much more restricted policy, namely to protecst civilians and create this no-fly zone. so there seems to be a contradictioand we re going to go in depth with general ham on what he can do, what he can t do, can herm the rebels, can he not arm the rebels. can he even talk to the rebels? can he have a military liaison officer in benghazi dealing with the rebels? and what aut gadhafi, if they have actionable intelligence, if they know where he is, can they capture him, can they kill him? these are tough questions. how will he define when he can declare mission accomplished in libya? no simple answers. we haveon lots of qutions. general ham will be joining us in the situation room. he s th
a s shooting this morning i indi indiana. police say a former student shot and wounded another teenager in martinsville. according to wish-tv, the victim is in stable condition after being shot in the stomach twice. the alleged shooter is in and police have recovered a handgun from the scene. now, let s take a look at what s ahead in the situation ro. wolf blitzer, are you there? i am. all ight. hear you have general carter ham, commander of u.s. africa command on the show today. he s a very smart guy. he s the four-star general, he s the head ofnt this entire u.s. militaib operation in libya right now. although he s in the process of handing over responsibility to a nato command, as you know. he s joining us from stutguard.