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Tunisian demonstrators pray near the Prime Minister's office as they stage a protest calling for the resignation of Tunisia's Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi in Tunis, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Salah Habibi) (AP)

Associated Press

A man carrying bread from a bakery walks past felled palm trees used as roadblocks by residents in the Tajoura district of eastern Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. Residents there have blocked many streets with roadblocks after protesters demanding Moammar Gadhafi's ouster came under a hail of bullets Friday when pro-regime militiamen opened fire to stop the first significant anti-government marches in days in the Libyan capital. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Libya rebels gear for bloody fight near capital

$Libya fractured: A look at liberated Benghazi$

Libya fractured: A look at liberated Benghazi

Peter Finocchiaro

A man walks through roadblocks made by residents in the Tajoura district of eastern Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. Residents there have blocked many streets with roadblocks after protesters demanding Moammar Gadhafi's ouster came under a hail of bullets Friday when pro-regime militiamen opened fire to stop the first significant anti-government marches in days in the Libyan capital. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Maggie Michael, Bassem Mroue

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Libyan protesters shout slogans against Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi during a demonstration at the court square, in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday Feb. 25, 2011. Several tens of thousands held a rally in support of the Tripoli protesters in the main square of Libya's second-largest city, Benghazi, where the revolt began, about 580 miles (940 kilometers) east of the capital along the Mediterranean coast. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Ben Hubbard, Maggie Michael

Egyptians, who used to work in Libya, and fled the unrest in the country, wait for their breakfast in a makeshift refugee camp set up by the Tunisian army, at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

Bassem Mroue, Paul Schemm

Bassem Mroue, Paul Schemm

A protester holds a placard portraying Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi as a pitbull dog held on a chain by a youth, with writing in arabic reading "Dog for sale" and on arm of youth "Youth of Free Libya", in Benghazi, Libya Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. Militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi clamped down in Tripoli Wednesday, but cracks in his regime spread elsewhere across the nation, as the protest-fueled rebellion controlling much of eastern Libya claimed new gains closer to the capital. (AP Photo/Alaguri) (AP)

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The anti-abortion billboard stands at the corner of 6th street in SoHo

NYC billboard likens abortion to black genocide

Libyan army soldiers shout slogans against Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi during a demonstration, in Tobruk, Libya, on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. Heavy gunfire broke out in Tripoli as forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi tightened their grip on the Libyan capital while anti-government protesters claimed control of many cities elsewhere and top government officials and diplomats turn against the longtime leader. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Human rights de-emphasized in Libya-U.S. relations

Marian Wang - ProPublica

FILE - In this June 11, 2005 file photo provided by Joe Grande, Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle are seen on a yacht in Bodega Bay, Calif. The U.S. military says Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 that pirates killed four American hostages they were holding on the yacht Quest off Somalia's coast. The victims are the Quest's owners, Scott and Jean Adam of California, and Macay and Riggle, both of Seattle. (AP Photo/Joe Grande, File) NO SALES (AP)

Friends: Americans killed by pirates were careful

George Tibbits, Christina Hoag

Gadhafi according to pop culture

Adam Clark Estes

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Libyans living in Japan and their supporters shout slogans against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in front of the Libyan embassy in Tokyo, on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) (AP)

Libyan protesters seize major cities

Andrea Rodriguez

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2009 file photo, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gestures with a green cane as he takes his seat behind bulletproof glass for a military parade in Green Square, Tripoli, Libya. Libyan protesters celebrated in the streets of Benghazi on Monday, Feb. 21, 2011 claiming control of the country's second largest city after bloody fighting, and anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli's main square for the first time. Moammar Gadhafi's son vowed that his father and security forces would fight "until the last bullet." (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, FIle) (AP)

Libya's Gadhafi vows to fight on, die a martyr

Sarah El Deeb, Maggie Michael

Gadhafi bizarre and brief television appearance

Adam Clark Estes

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Men carry a coffin at Al-Jalaa hospital in Benghazi, Libya on Monday, Feb. 21, 2011. Libyan protesters celebrated in the streets of Benghazi on Monday, claiming control of the country's second largest city after bloody fighting, and anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli's main square for the first time. (AP Photo/Alaguri) (AP)

Bodies of protesters litter the streets of Libya

This photograph, obtained by The Associated Press outside Libya and taken by an individual not employed by AP, shows people atop a building holding a banner and a flag during recent days' unrest in Benghazi, Libya. The graffiti in Arabic reads "No to the East, no to the West". (AP Photo) EDITOR'S NOTE: THE AP HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE EXACT CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. (AP)

Associated Press

Demonstrators gather near the White House in Washington in a show of solidarity with the Libyan protestors on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011. Moammar Gadhafi's forces fired on mourners leaving a funeral for protesters Saturday in the eastern city of Benghazi, killing at least 15 people and wounding scores more as the regime tried to squelch calls for an end to the ruler's 42-year grip on power. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Edith M. Lederer

This photograph, obtained by The Associated Press outside Libya and taken by an individual not employed by AP, shows people chanting and holding signs during recent days' unrest in Benghazi, Libya. Placards in Arabic read at top left "Strike, strike until the fall of the regime", and at top right "The people want to topple the regime". (AP Photo) EDITOR'S NOTE: THE AP HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE EXACT CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. (AP)

Foreigners evacuate Libya as violence escalates

Frances D'emilio

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This photograph, obtained by The Associated Press outside Libya and taken by an individual not employed by AP, shows people gathering during recent days' unrest in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo) EDITOR'S NOTE: THE AP HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE EXACT CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. (AP)

Aircraft fire on protesters, Gadhafi flees Tripoli

Adam Clark Estes

Hamza Hendawi, Maggie Michael

This photograph, obtained by The Associated Press outside Libya and taken by an individual not employed by AP, shows people chanting and holding signs during recent days' unrest in Benghazi, Libya. Placards in Arabic read at top left "Strike, strike until the fall of the regime", and at top right "The people want to topple the regime". (AP Photo) EDITOR'S NOTE: THE AP HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE EXACT CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. (AP)

Hundreds killed during Libyan protests Sunday

Protesters burn photos of Libyan leader Moammar Ghaddafi during a demonstration to support the Libyan people, on Place des Nations in front of the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi) (AP)

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