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President Barack Obama makes a statement on Libya, Friday, March 18, 2011, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo) (AP)

Ben Feller
An F-18 growler jet fighter flies over the Nato airbase in Aviano, Italy, Saturday, March 19, 2011. NATO's top decision-making body is meeting in emergency session Saturday to review military plans for a no-fly zone over Libya. The North Atlantic Council is expected to issue the order to launch the operation during this weekend. Officials said the military staff was putting the final touches on plans to deploy dozens of fighter-bombers, tankers, helicopters and surveillance planes to several air bases along Europe's southern rim. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) (AP)

Jamey Keaten
Smoke billows over the outskirts of Benghazi, eastern Libya, Saturday, March 19, 2011. Explosions shook the Libyan city of Benghazi early on Saturday while a fighter jet was heard flying overhead, and residents said the eastern rebel stronghold was under attack from Gadhafi's forces. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ryan Lucas
President Barack Obama makes a statement on Libya, Friday, March 18, 2011, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo) (AP)

Bradley Klapper
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This image taken from video shows rebels on the back of a vehicle in the area of Benina, a civilian and military airport, outside Benghazi in eastern Libya Thursday March 17, 2011. Libyan rebels shot down at least two bomber planes that attacked the airport in their main stronghold of Benghazi Thursday, according to residents who witnessed the rare success in the struggle against Moammar Gadhafi's superior air power. (AP Photo/APTN) (AP)

Libyan forces attack Benghazi

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ryan Lucas
American Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice speaks to reporters after a Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya, Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo) (AP)

Edith M. Lederer

Associated Press
Men, who used to work in Libya and fled the unrest in the country, carry their belongings as they walk during a sand storm in a refugee camp at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Tuesday, March 15, 2011. More than 250,000 migrant workers have left Libya for neighboring countries, primarily Tunisia and Egypt, in the past three weeks. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) (Associated Press)

Maggie Michael, Khaled Kazziha
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France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, left, welcomes, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, right, for a Group of Eight Foreign Ministers meeting in Paris, Tuesday, March 15, 2011.(AP Photo/Michel Euler) (Picasa 2.6)

Obama has little hope for UN no-fly zone measure

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In this photo taken during a government-organised visit for foreign media, a pro-Gadhafi fighter makes his evening prayers in the desert as a plume of smoke rises from the burning oil refinery in Ras Lanouf, 380 miles (615 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tripoli, in Libya Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Diaa Hadid, Ryan Lucas
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, is greeted by Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa as he arrives for a meeting at Al-Zahar Palace in Manama Saturday, March 12, 2011. Gates is meeting in Bahrain with the kingdom's top rulers, who are facing growing demands for more political freedom. (AP Photo/ Mandal Ngan, pool) (AP)

Nick Turse
Pro-Gadhafi fighters raise their weapons as they are pictured during a government-organized visit for foreign media in Bin Jawwad, 350 miles (560 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tripoli, in Libya Saturday, March 12, 2011. The world moved a step closer to a decision on imposing a no-fly zone over Libya but Moammar Gadhafi was swiftly advancing Saturday on the poorly equipped and loosely organized rebels who have seized much of the country. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Diaa Hadid, Ryan Lucas
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Men chant slogans and wave the Egyptian flag during a rally to support Muslims and Christians in national unity at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian January 25 uprising, in Cairo, Egypt Friday, March 11, 2011, two days after 13 were killed and 140 wounded during clashes between Muslims and Christians as the police and ruling military struggle to maintain order barely a month after a popular uprising ousted longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) (AP)

Pepe Escobar
In this photo taken during a government-organised visit for foreign media, a pro-Gadhafi fighter is seen beneath a plume of smoke from the burning oil refinery in Ras Lanouf, 380 miles (615 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tripoli, in Libya Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Diaa Hadid, Paul Schemm
In this photo taken during a government-organised visit for foreign media, a pro-Gadhafi fighter makes his evening prayers in the desert as a plume of smoke rises from the burning oil refinery in Ras Lanouf, 380 miles (615 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tripoli, in Libya Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Paul Schemm
Anti-Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi rebels, stand on their vehicle shout slogans against Gadhafi at a desert road between Agela and Ras Lanouf towns, eastern Libya, on Saturday March 12, 2011. An emergency European Union summit on Libya brought a no-fly zone no closer, but leaders embraced a new Libyan opposition group as a viable partner after cutting all contact with strongman Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Diaa Hadid
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A Libyan volunteer carries ammunition on the outskirts of the eastern town of Ras Lanouf, Libya, Thursday, March 10, 2011. Government forces drove hundreds of rebels from a strategic oil port with rockets and tank shells on Thursday, significantly expanding Moammar Gadhafi's control of Libya. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) (AP)

Ryan Lucas, Paul Schemm
In this photo taken during a government-organised visit for foreign media, a pro-Gadhafi soldier mimics a gun with his hand as he and another walk across freshly-bulldozed ground from which the bodies of opposition dead had been exhumed, according to a resident, in the main square of Zawiya, Libya Friday, March 11, 2011. Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime has gained momentum with the capture of Zawiya after days of fierce fighting with rebels, in a key test of the government's ability to maintain its hold on the Libyan capital and surrounding areas. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Maggie Michael
A Libyan volunteer sits near a weapon on the outskirts of the eastern town of Ras Lanouf, Libya, Thursday, March 10, 2011. Government forces drove hundreds of rebels from a strategic oil port with a withering rain of rockets and tank shells on Thursday, significantly expanding Moammar Gadhafi's control of Libya as Western nations struggled to find a way to stop him. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) (AP)

Stephen Braun
Traders of crude oil and natural gas react during early trading at the New York Mercantile Exchange on Friday, March 11, 2011. The economic fallout from a massive earthquake that struck off the east coast of Japan dipped oil below $100 for the first time this month. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) (AP)

Associated Press
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A Libyan volunteer carries ammunition on the outskirts of the eastern town of Ras Lanouf, Libya, Thursday, March 10, 2011. Government forces drove hundreds of rebels from a strategic oil port with rockets and tank shells on Thursday, significantly expanding Moammar Gadhafi's control of Libya. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) (AP)

Associated Press
President Barack Obama returns a Marine honor guard salute as he steps off Marine One upon returning to the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2011, after traveling to education and fundraising events in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

David Bromwich
An anti-Gadhafi rebel, walks along a sand barrier, as other rebels fire a rocket launcher seen in the right, during fighting against pro-Gadhafi fighters, in Sedra, eastern Libya, Wednesday March 9, 2011. A high-ranking member of the Libyan military flew to Cairo on Wednesday with a message for Egyptian army officials from Moammar Gadhafi, whose troops pounded opposition forces with artillery barrages and gunfire in at least two major cities. Gadhafi appeared to be keeping up the momentum he has seized in recent days in his fight against rebels trying to move on the capital, Tripoli, from territory they hold in eastern Libya. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Paul Schemm
This video image taken from Libyan state television broadcast on Wednesday March 9, 2011 shows Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi addressing supporters in Tripoli, Libya. (AP Photo/Libyan state television via APTN) LIBYA OUT, TV OUT (AP)

Maggie Michael, Paul Schemm
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