10:10pm Barack Obama, the US president, has just made short comments on the initiation of military operations. He says that the US is "proud that we are acting as part of a coalition", and that the coalition was "answering the calls of a threatened people".
There is a briefing by Vice Admiral William E Gortney, Director of the Joint Staff in the US, currently ongoing at the Pentagon.Pentagon Briefing - 03/19/11