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An anti-Gadhafi rebel, carries his RPG as he walks forward with other rebels to fight in the front line during fighting against pro-Gadhafi fighters, near the town of Bin-Jawad, eastern Libya, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Libyan warplanes launched at least three new airstrikes Tuesday near rebel positions in the oil port of Ras Lanouf, keeping up a counteroffensive to prevent the opposition from advancing toward leader Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold in the capital Tripoli. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

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Anti-Gadhafi rebels drive a vehicle forward as smoke rises following an air strike by pro-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi warplanes that attacked a highway leading to the town of Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Libyan warplanes launched at least three new airstrikes Tuesday near rebel positions in the oil port of Ras Lanouf, keeping up a counteroffensive to prevent the opposition from advancing toward leader Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold in the capital Tripoli. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

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Egyptians celebrate the news of the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, who handed control of the country to the military, at night in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

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Smoke raises following an air strike by Libyan warplanes near a checkpoint near to the anti-Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi rebels checkpoint in the oil town of Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya, Monday, March 7, 2011.Forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi have launched an airstrike against a rebel position in a key oil port. There were no casualties in the Monday morning attack in Ras Lanouf.Libyan rebels say they are regrouping after forces loyal to Gadhafi pounded opposition fighters with helicopter gunships, artillery and rockets on Sunday to stop the rebels' rapid advance toward the capital. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

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Pro-Gadhafi soldiers and supporters gather to celebrate in Green Square, Tripoli, Libya Sunday, March 6, 2011. Thousands of Moammar Gadhafi's supporters poured into the streets of Tripoli on Sunday morning, waving flags and firing their guns in the air in the Libyan leader's main stronghold, claiming overnight military successes. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Paul Schemm
Pro-Gadhafi soldiers and supporters gather to celebrate in Green Square, Tripoli, Libya Sunday, March 6, 2011. Thousands of Moammar Gadhafi's supporters poured into the streets of Tripoli on Sunday morning, waving flags and firing their guns in the air in the Libyan leader's main stronghold, claiming overnight military successes. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Peter Finocchiaro
Egypt's new Prime Minister designate Essam Sharaf is surrounded by supporters as he gives a speech at the Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, March 4, 2011. Sharaf vowed before thousands of mostly young demonstrators at the central Cairo square to do everything he could to meet their demands and pleaded for them to turn their attention to "rebuilding" the country. Sharaf was picked by Egypt's ruling military on Thursday march 3, to replace Ahmed Shafiq as prime minister. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (AP)

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Pro-Gadhafi soldiers and supporters gather to celebrate in Green Square, Tripoli, Libya Sunday, March 6, 2011. Thousands of Moammar Gadhafi's supporters poured into the streets of Tripoli on Sunday morning, waving flags and firing their guns in the air in the Libyan leader's main stronghold, claiming overnight military successes. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

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Libyan rebels who are part of the forces against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi celebrate after capturing the oil town of Ras Lanuf, in eastern Libya, Saturday, March 5, 2011. Witnesses say Libyan rebels have captured the oil port town of Ras Lanouf from pro-Moammar Gadhafi forces, their first military victory in what could be a long, westward march to the capital Tripoli. The witnesses said on Saturday that Ras Lanouf, about 87 miles (140 kilometers) east of the Gadhafi stronghold of Sirte, fell in rebel hands Friday night after a fierce battle with pro-regime forces who later fled. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) (AP)

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Gadhafi lays siege on Zawiya, called a massacre

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Libyan relatives of rebel fighters killed in fighting with troops loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Wednesday, react during a mass funeral in Ajdabiya, eastern Libya, Thursday, March 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) (AP)

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FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2011, file photo Egypt's recently appointed Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq speaks to the media at the Ministry of the Interior in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's military rulers say Thursday March 3, 2011 Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq has resigned. Shafiq, a former air force officer, was named prime minister by ousted president Hosni Mubarak shortly after the outbreak on Jan. 25 of massive anti-government protests. (AP Photo/Victoria Hazou, File) (Associated Press)

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President Barack Obama speaks during a bi-partisan meeting of governors in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

"Gadhafi must leave"

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BP PLC's CEO Bob Dudley during a results media conference at their headquarters in London, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. BP announced Tuesday it is resuming dividend payouts for the first time since the Gulf of Mexico well disaster, despite suffering its first full-year loss since 1992, and plans to sell off almost half of its U.S. refinery business. BP said a stronger-than-expected end to 2010, in which high oil prices lifted fourth quarter profit by 30 percent, was not enough to avoid a full-year loss of $3.7 billion. It raised to $40.9 billion its estimate for the overall cost of the spill, the charge covering the cost of the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig, which killed 11 workers in April, as well as plugging the well and cleaning up the southern U.S. coast. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) (AP)

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A Libyan rebel celebrates next to a burn pro-Moaamar Gadhafi fighters vehicle in the town of Brega, east of Libya, oWednesday March 2, 2011. Regime opponents battled forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi who tried Wednesday to retake a key oil installation in a counteroffensive Wednesday against the rebel-held eastern half of the country. At one point in the flip-flopping battle, anti-Gadhafi fighters cornered the attackers in a nearby seaside university campus in fierce fighting that killed at least five. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

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Anti-Gadhafi protestors Kadija Sherif, right, and Hana Benghalbon, background, take part in a demonstration at the Libyan Embassy in Washington, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez) (AP)

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This video image taken from Libyan state television broadcast Wednesday March 2, 2011 shows Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi addressing supporters and journalists in Tripoli, Libya. (AP Photo/Libyan state television via APTN) LIBYA OUT, TV OUT (AP)

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New Libyan rebel recruits from the forces against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi push an anti-aircraft gun at a military base in Benghazi, eastern Libya, Tuesday, March 1 , 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) (AP)

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Pro-Gadhafi supporters in a car speed past a vehicle used to transport tanks from the Libyan military's elite Khamis Brigade, led by Gadhafi's youngest son Khamis Gadhafi, hours after the Khamis units were deployed on the road in Harshan, 10km east of Zawiya, in Libya, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Rebel forces in Zawiya were locked in a standoff with Gadhafi loyalists and residents inside the city said they were anticipating a possible attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

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US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb., 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

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Human Rights council members follow a speech by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday Feb. 28, 2011. The 27-nation bloc agreed an arms embargo, asset freeze and visa ban against Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi on Monday. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

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A Libyan oil worker, works at a refinery inside the Brega oil complex, in Brega east of Libya, on Saturday Feb. 26, 2011. Production at Brega has dropped by almost 90 percent amid the country's crisis because many employees have fled and few ships are coming to offload the product. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

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Libyan men hold the former royal flag as they drive past a demonstration against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in Benghazi, in eastern Libya, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) (AP)

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