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FILE - In this April 3, 2011 file photo, an injured Libyan man who lost one of his legs is seen on board the Turkish ship Ankara, carrying 250 wounded from Misrata that docked at the port of Benghazi, Libya. More than 40 days of siege, shelling and sniper fire by Moammar Gadhafi's forces have exacted a bloody price in rebel-held Misrata, Libya's third-largest city and a coveted prize in the increasingly deadlocked civil war. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File) (AP)

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Maggie Michael
File - Libya's Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa reads a statement to foreign journalists at a hotel in in Tripoli, in this Friday March 18, 2011 file photo. Libya's foreign minister has left Tunisia for London after a two-day visit shrouded in secrecy, Tunisia's official news agency said Wednesday, March 30 2011. Moussa Koussa traveled on an early afternoon flight on an unidentified Swiss carrier from the Tunisian resort of Djerba toward the British capital, the TAP news agency reported. (AP Photo / Jerome Delay, file)

Ben Hubbard
In this video image taken from Turkish television Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is seen during an interview with the TV channel TRT, in Tripoli, March 8, 2011.

David Sirota
A Libyan child walks with a Libyan pre-Gadhafi flag during an evening demonstration in Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Rebels retreated Wednesday from the key Libyan oil port of Ras Lanouf along the coastal road leading to the capital Tripoli after they came under heavy shelling from ground forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) (AP)

Lolita C. Baldor, Donna Cassata
Young pro-Syrian President Bashar Assad protesters, shout pro-Assad slogans as they demonstrate to show their support for him.

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Zeina Karam
Female anti-government protestors react while chanting prayers during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa,Yemen, Sunday, March 27, 2011. Islamic militants seized control of a weapons factory and a nearby town in Yemen's south Sunday, said a witness and security officials, as political turmoil around the country causes security to unravel. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (AP)

Ahmed Al-haj
Anti-Syrian government protesters, left, and pro-government, right, clash after Friday prayers in Damascus, Syria, Friday, March 25, 2011. Thousands of Syrians took to the streets Friday demanding reforms and mourning dozens of protesters who were killed during a violent, week long crackdown that has brought extraordinary pressure on the country's autocratic regime, activists and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman) (AP)

Zeina Karam, Bassem Mroue
Syrians anti and pro-Assad protesters clash after Friday prayers outside the Omayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, Friday, March 25, 2011. Thousands of Syrians took to the streets Friday demanding reforms and mourning dozens of protesters who were killed during a violent, week long crackdown that has brought extraordinary pressure on the country's autocratic regime, activists and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman) (AP)

Zeina Karam, Bassem Mroue
A Jordanian protester shouts slogans during a demonstration in Amman, Jordan Thursday, March 24, 2011. Hundreds of Jordanians, mostly university students or unemployed graduates unaffiliated with any political party, set up a protest camp in a main square in the capital on Thursday to press demands for the ouster of the prime minister and wider public freedoms. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud) (AP)

6 hurt as government backers attack Jordan protest

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A female anti-government protestor takes part in a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa,Yemen, Thursday, March 24, 2011. The leader of Yemen's largest tribe has announced his support for opposition demands that the country's longtime president step down. Sheik Sinan Abu Lohoum of the Baqeel tribe is also warning President Ali Abdullah Saleh against further use of violence against protesters.(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (AP)

Saleh will leave if Yemen will be in safe hands

Ahmed Al-haj
A Yemeni girl holding her national flag sits with her father along with anti-government protestors during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa,Yemen, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Yemen's parliament enacted sweeping emergency laws Wednesday after the country's embattled president asked for new powers of arrest, detention and censorship to quash a popular uprising demanding his ouster. Arabic reads on the flag, " Leave". (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (AP)

Ahmed Al-haj
A Yemeni army officer carried by anti-government protestors during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa,Yemen, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Yemen's parliament enacted sweeping emergency laws Wednesday after the country's embattled president asked for new powers of arrest, detention and censorship to quash a popular uprising demanding his ouster. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (AP)

Bradley Klapper

Diaa Hadid
Palestinians pass by unfinished buildings at the UNRWA housing project in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Israel's military began transporting 40,000 tons of construction materials into the Gaza Strip at the Sufa Crossing on Wednesday, in a new move to ease its blockade of the coastal territory. The week-long operation will supply badly needed gravel for U.N. schools and other humanitarian projects, including homes in Khan Younis. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba) (AP)

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An anti-government protestor sitting on a traffic sign reacts as the bodies of demonstrators who were killed on Friday's clashes with Yemeni security forces, arrive during their funeral procession in Sanaa,Yemen, Sunday, March 20, 2011. The Yemeni president's own tribe has called on him to step down after a deadly crackdown on protesters, robbing the embattled U.S.-backed leader of vital support in a society dominated by blood ties. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) (AP)

Ahmed Al-haj
Anti-government protestors gather by the bodies of the demonstrators who were killed on Friday's clashes with Yemeni security forces, during their funeral procession in Sanaa,Yemen, Sunday, March 20, 2011. The Yemeni president's own tribe has called on him to step down after a deadly crackdown on protesters, robbing the embattled U.S.-backed leader of vital support in a society dominated by blood ties. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (AP)

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Egyptian Muslim brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie, casts his vote in polling station in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 19, 2011. The referendum on constitutional amendments gives Egypt's 40 million voters their first taste of a free vote in decades, but also poses the first major challenge to the country's transition to democracy after decades of authoritarian rule. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (AP)

Maggie Michael
This Saturday, March 19, 2011 photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52) as it launches a Tomahawk missile in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn from the Mediterranean Sea . The U.S. fired more than 100 cruise missiles from the sea while French fighter jets targeted Moammar Gadhafi's forces from the air on Saturday, launching the broadest international military effort since the Iraq war in support of an uprising that had seemed on the verge of defeat. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Fireman Roderick Eubanks) (AP)

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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)

Bradley Klapper
An Afghan woman clad in burqa watches the view of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Insurgents killed more Afghan civilians last year than ever before and their roadside bombs, suicide attacks and assassinations were responsible for the overwhelming majority of conflict-related deaths in 2010, the United Nations said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Tom Engelhardt
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
Shiite Bahraini youths burn tires Wednesday, March 16, 2011, near a shopping mall in Malkiya, Bahrain as they awaited government forces they anticipated would roll into their Shiite Muslim village southwest of the capital of Manama. They said they tried to get to Manama to join anti-government protesters under attack there but found all ways in to the capital closed. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Bahrain's crackdown on protesters kills 5

Barbara Surk, Reem Khalifa
Thousands of anti-government protesters march Tuesday, March 15, 2011, to the Saudi embassy in Manama, Bahrain. Bahrain's king declared a three-month state of emergency Tuesday to quell a Shiite uprising, as clashes spread through the capital and surrounding villages in a showdown that drew in the region's major powers and splintered along its main sectarian faultlines. At least two Bahrainis and a Saudi soldier died, and hundreds of protesters were injured by shotgun blasts and clubs. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Barbara Surk, Reem Khalifa
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