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A Libyan rebel walks on the front line outside of Bin Jawaad, 150 km east of Sirte, central Libya, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Rockets and tank fire sent Libya's rebel volunteers in a panicked scramble away from the front lines Tuesday, suggesting that the opposition is still no match for the superior firepower and organization of Gadhafi's forces, despite an international campaign of deadly airstrikes. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

Arming the Libyan rebels: Is it legal -- or wise?

Glenn Greenwald

Libyan rebels load ammunition on the frontline outside of Bin Jawaad, 150 km east of Sirte, central Libya, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Libyan government tanks and rockets blunted a rebel assault on Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte on Tuesday and drove back the ragtag army of irregulars, even as world leaders prepared to debate the country future in London. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

A question for Juan Cole

Glenn Greenwald

Libyan rebels jump onto the back of their vehicle as they leave Ras Lanouf, 250 km east of Sirte, central Libya, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Gadhafi's forces drove the rebels out of Bin Jawwad, a hamlet east of Sirte, on Tuesday. Cars and trucks of the retreating rebels filled both lanes of the highway east to the oil port of Ras Lanouf. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

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Sarah Palin

Palin update: Is Libya campaign a "squirmish"?

En esta foto de archivo del viernes 25 de marzo del 2011, el presidente Barack Obama sonríe ampliamente en un acontecimiento para festejar el Día de la Independencia de Grecia en el Salón Oriental de la Casa Blanca el viernes 25 de marzo del 2011 en Washington. El presidente Obama ofrecerá la noche del lunes 28 de marzo del 2011 un informe pormenorizado de las decisiones que tomó su gobierno para participar en las acciones militares contra el gobierno del presidente de Libia Moamar Gadafi. (Foto AP/Karolyn Kaster) (AP)

We're No. 1!

Glenn Greenwald

President Barack Obama delivers his address on Libya at the National Defense University in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (AP)

Richard Lardner, Calvin Woodward

A Libyan rebel urges people to leave, as shelling from Gadhafi's forces starts landing on the frontline outside of Bin Jawaad, 150 km east of Sirte, central Libya, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

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President Barack Obama speaks about Libya at the National Defense University in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Obama: We're in Libya to prevent massacres

A Ministry of Information official, left, tries to grab Iman Al-Obeidi, who said she spent two days in detention after being arrested at a checkpoint in Tripoli, Libya, and was sexually assaulted by up to 15 men while in custody in Tripoli Saturday March 26, 2011, after storming into the hotel's breakfast room to show her wounds to foreign media. A scuffle between hotel employees, information ministry officials and plain clothed police trying to grab her and stop the press for filming on one side and foreign media representatives followed. Two cameras were smashed on the ground and at least one reporter was beaten and kicked. Al-Obeidi was later taken in a car to an undisclosed location. Center is an unidentified foreign journalist . (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) (AP)

Libyan rebels jubilate on a checkpoint in Al-Egila, east of Ras Lanuf, eastern Libya, Sunday, March 27, 2011. The rebels claim that they have entered Ras Lanuf. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ryan Lucas

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A 31st Fighter Wing United States Air Force F-16 jet fighter comes into land at the Aviano NATO airbase, in Aviano, Italy, Friday, March 25, 2011 with a Boeing C-17A Globemaster III of the 437th Airlift Wing in the background. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) (AP)

Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks to reporters in Cairo, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool) (AP)

Associated Press

Libyan rebels stop at a checkpoint in Al-Egila, east of Ras Lanuf, eastern Libya, Sunday, March 27, 2011. The rebels claim that they have entered Ras Lanuf. The rebels claim that they have entered Ras Lanuf. Libyan rebels took back a key oil town and pushed westward Sunday toward the capital, seizing momentum from the international airstrikes that tipped the balance away from Moammar Gadhafi's military. Brega, a main oil export terminal in eastern Libya, fell after a skirmish late Saturday and rebel forces moved swiftly west, seizing the tiny desert town of Al-Egila a collection of houses and a gas station on their way to the massive oil refining complex of Ras Lanouf. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

Ben Hubbard, Ryan Lucas

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President Barack Obama speaks at an event commemorating Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House, Friday, March 25, 2011 in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Darlene Superville

A Libyan rebels carries rockets on a checkpoint on the frontline near Zwitina, the outskirts of the city of Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, eastern Libya, Thursday, March 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

A Libyan rebel prays next to his gun on the frontline of the outskirts of the city of Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, eastern Libya, Monday, March 21, 2011. The international military intervention in Libya is likely to last "a while," a top French official said Monday, echoing Moammar Gadhafi's warning of a long war ahead as rebels, energized by the strikes on their opponents, said they were fighting to reclaim a city under siege from the Libyan leader's forces.(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

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Teresa Cotsirilos

Glenn Greenwald

Two MV-22 Osprey vertical take off and lift aircraft land , one carrying US General Carter Ham , Commander of the United States military mission in Libya, in the Sigonella airbase, Sicily, Thursday, March 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) (AP)

Turkish leader: NATO to command Libya operation

Associated Press

Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , talks during in interview with the Associated Press in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, March 24, 2011. Ocampo says that he is "100 percent" certain that his investigation will lead to charges of crimes against humanity against the Libyan regime of Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (AP)

"100 percent" chance of Gadhafi regime prosecution

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