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Rubin: International community must make Gadhafi stop mass murder
Moammar Gadhafi vowed to die a martyr for his country and refused calls to step down, in a speech Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Gadhafi continues to lose control over eastern Libya as well as the support of some members of the Libyan government and military.The Libyan leader insisted agents of foreign intelligence services were to blame for the wide-spread unrest and vowed to kill protesters. Former Assistant Secretary of State James Rubin talks to T.J. Holmes about Libya's future and and says the international community has to figure out how to exert more pressure on Gadhafi.
Friend remembers couple killed at sea, says they knew the danger
Negotiations between Somali pirates and the U.S. Navy ended brutally Tuesday in the shooting deaths of four Americans.
The Americans–Jean and Scott Adam, Phyllis Macay and Robert A. Riggle– were taken hostage by Somali pirates Friday as they sailed in notoriously dangerous waters off the coast of Oman. The Adams were fulfilling their dream of embarking on a missionary sailing trip around the world and were accompanied by crew-members Macay and Riggle.
Naval forces were trailing the pirates' ship, when pirates fired a rocket propelled grenade at the U.S. cruiser. Then, seeing gunfire where the hostages were being held, the Navy entered the cabin on the pirates' ship where they found the Americans shot dead.
Clayton Schmit was a close friend of the Adams and talks to American Morning's Kiran Chetry.
Losing control, Libyan government cracks down on protesters
Libyan security forces cracked down on protests Monday, as unrest increased in the nation's second largest city, Benghazi. Meanwhile, Moammar Gadhafi insists he remains in Libya and in control.
CNN National Security Contributor Fran Townsend is a former Homeland Security Adviser to President Bush and has met Moammar Gadhafi and his son Saif. Townsend talks to American Morning's Kiran Chetry and T.J. Holmes about the security situation in Libya.
And, after two pilots fled to Malta seeking political asylum, will other members of the military follow suit? Townsend says to keep a close eye on the Libyan military.
Female news correspondent sexually assaulted, beaten in Cairo
CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was reporting on the protests in Egypt Friday when she was separated from her crew and attacked. She is currently recovering in a U.S. hospital, having been sexually assaulted and beaten.
Judith Matloff is a Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and has known Logan since 1992. She says Logan's story is unusual not because it happened, but because the public is hearing about it. Professor Matloff speaks to American Morning's Kiran Chetry.
Thousands protest in Bahrain's Pearl Square
More than ten thousand protesters filled Bahrain's Pearl Square Tuesday, making it the largest in the Persian Gulf nation's history.
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is in Bahrain covering the protest. Kristof tweeted, "At Bahrain's Pearl Sq looks like Tahrir Square all over again. Police gathered in force but standing back for now."
Kristof talks to T.J. Holmes about the uprisings in Bahrain and how they compare to those in Egypt.
The Egypt effect: Unrest spreads in Middle East
In the wake of Egypt's protests and the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, other Middle Eastern nations seem to be following suit; there have been protests in Iran, Yemen and Bahrain, as well.
Professor Emad Shahin of the University of Notre Dame went to Cairo to participate in the demonstrations there and says protests in other nations shouldn't come as a surprise. He tells American Morning's Kiran Chetry about the current situation in Egypt and the political trend Egyptians might be setting throughout the Middle East.
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