something we never normally see. the government minders, thugs, even, jumping on her, trying to cover up her story because she was criticizing the government, fredricka. nic robertson thank you so much. he just explained that the woman is from the eastern part of the country, benghazi. cnn s rehza sayah went to benghazi, spoke with this woman s family. what are they telling you, reza? according to her cousin, she is not from benghazi, she s interest the town of tobruk. another opposition stronghold about two hours east of her. according to the cousin, the woman s name is iman al abedi. she s not married, but is engaged, she was working at a travel agency in tripoli. at this point, that s all we know. but this war, obviously, is the big story in libya. but this incident is starting to make a lot of headlines.
it s very important for western powers to convey to the world that this is not just a western operation, arab nations are ply playing a role. still not clear if it s a symbolic role, diplomatic, financial support or military support. rehza sayah, thank so much. we ll go to italy, sicily, home base to nato base and a u.s. naval air station. right now a very strategic gathering point for countries helping to enforce the no fly zone. cnn s diana manna is at the u.s. air base in trapani joins us now. i saw an email from you about tornadoes taking off. hi, michael. in the last 15 minutes we ve just seen six tornado fighter jets from the italian air force take off and we ve been told by the air force spokesman on base that they are bound to libya. we obviously don t know the details of their deployment. you know, from the french earlier, the french forces did