CNN 2011-03-23

we're seeing the skies over Tripoli illuminated 1 by anti-aircraft gunfire from a number of different locations. We're also seeing big white flashes in the sky from some heavier anti-aircraft guns that are detonating high in the sky. This is the third time. Every two hours tonight since nightfall, there has been an attack and this heavy anti-aircraft gunfire

Because we're working with international partners, after the initial thrust that has disabled Gadhafi's air defenses, limits his ability to threaten large population centers like Benghazi, that there's going to be a transition taking place in which we have a range of coalition 2 partners -- the Europeans, members of the Arab League -- who will then be participating in establishing a no-fly zone there.

With respect to initiating 3 this action while I was abroad, keep in mind that we were working on very short time frames, and we had done all the work and it was just a matter of seeing how Qaddafi would react to the warning that I issued on Friday.

In Japan’s disaster, there are too many dead to have a proper funeral. It is too early to know how many children have been impacted by this disaster, but aid organizations believe that number will be well into thousands and they will feel the psychological damage for years to come.

We have already spoken to children who are having nightmares. They are unable to sleep. They are frightened of the sea because they believe it’s going to come back. They are frightened to be indoors because the building shakes so violently during the earthquake. So it is absolutely a chance. Many of these children are going to have difficulties, serious difficulties coming in turns to happen to them.

I was so afraid of that tsunami 4. I cannot even put my fear into words.

Others have been found. Survivors 5 have been in the news. So I still have some hope.

"Der Spiegel" is the German magazine that got hold of -- now published these photos. They are part of the case against this band of rogue 6 soldiers all facing court-martial out of Fort Lewis, Washington.

The pictures show U.S. soldiers identified by the magazine as Specialist Jeremy Morlock and Private First Class Andrew Holmes, both posing with a dead Afghan. Holmes and Morlock, currently facing charges related to the wrongful death of Afghan civilians 7. In a third picture, two apparently 8 dead Afghans are tied back to back.

The U.S. Army does require pictures of bodies to be used for identification in battle investigations 9, but doesn't condone 10 anything like posing or what some would call trophy 11 photos.