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In this photo taken on a government-organized tour, Libyan man stands in debris from a damaged residential building in Tripoli's outskirts, Libya, on Sunday, June 19, 2011. The Libyan government says civilians have been killed in a NATO airstrike that has struck the residential neighborhood in Tripoli. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) (AP)

NATO admits airstrike went astray in Libya

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Adam Schreck
In this photo taken on a government-organized tourm a Libyan student holds a portrait of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, outside the damaged university building in Tripoli, Libya, on Saturday, June 18, 2011. Libyan officials claim that one of the buildings at the university complex was recently hit by a NATO airstrike. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) (AP)

Libya says NATO airstrike hits residential area

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Adam Schreck
In this image taken from TV, showing rebel forces on the front line as they repel government troops, Sunday June 12, 2011, in Dafniya, Libya. as fighting continued on Sunday near Libya's main port of Misrata, a western redoubt of the rebels. Video of the battle shows rebels advancing down a road, firing automatic weapons, guns mounted on pick up trucks, rockets and heavy artillery. (AP Photo/APTN) TV OUT (AP)

Libyan rebels claim breakout from Misrata

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Maggie Michael
Rebel soldiers provide security outside the hotel where Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini signed a memorandum of understanding with rebel officials in Benghazi, Libya, Tuesday , May 31, 2011. Italy's foreign minister says Rome has signed a deal with Libya's rebels to provide them with a credit line of hundreds of millions of euros. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (AP)

British, French helicopters strike Gadhafi troops

Hadeel Al-shalchi
Rebel fighters retreat out of Ajdabiya during an advance by pro-Gadhafi forces, on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya Saturday, April 9, 2011. Government soldiers and rebel gunmen battled in the streets of the key front-line city of Ajdabiya Saturday after the Libyan military used shelling and guerrilla-style tactics to open its most serious push into opposition territory since international airstrikes began. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Libyan rebels say strikes help them hold town

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Sebastian Abbot
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)

Besieged Libyan rebel city looks for NATO rescue

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Maggie Michael
Libyan rebels shell pro Gadhafi positions just outside Brega, Libya, Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Libyan government forces on Tuesday unleashed a withering bombardment of the rebels outside a key oil town pushing them back, even as the regime said Moammar Gadhafi might consider some reforms but would not stepping down. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) (AP)

NATO says Libya, not Britain, behind oil attack

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Tarek El-tablawy
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)

Libya air raids hit Gadhafi stronghold of Sirte

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ryan Lucas
Royal red arrows aerobatic planes pass over the RAF (Royal Air Force) Akrotiri a British military base near southern port city of Limassol, Cyprus, Monday, March 21, 2011. The European Union's top foreign policy official brushed aside concerns Monday that the coalition supporting military action against Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi is already starting to fracture, saying the head of the Arab League was misquoted as criticizing the operation.Early Sunday, U.S. French and British planes began bombarding Libyan military targets with a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missiles and precision bombs. Late in the day, a cruise missile blasted Gadhafi's residential compound.(AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) (AP)

Top Sarkozy advisor warns of a long fight in Libya

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ryan Lucas
Libyan soldiers survey the damage to an administrative building hit by a missile late Sunday in the heart of Moammar Gadhafi's Bab Al Azizia compound in Tripoli, Libya, early Monday, March 21, 2011 as they are pictured during an organized trip by the Libyan authorities. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) (AP)

Cruise missile blasts Gadhafi’s compound near tent

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ryan Lucas
This photo provided by the French Army shows a pilot checking a French Mirage 2000 jet fighter at the military base of Dijon, central France, Saturday, March 19, 2011. Top officials from the United States, Europe and the Arab world have launched immediate military action to protect civilians as Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces attacked the heart of the country's rebel uprising. The Mirages 2000 are operating in Libya. (AP Photo/ Anthony Jeuland; SIRPA AIR) NO SALES (AP)

U.S., allies strike Libyan targets from air and sea

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ryan Lucas

Gadhafi calls U.S.-led intervention “crusader aggression”

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ryan Lucas
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)

Gadhafi strikes rebels as diplomats mull action

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ryan Lucas
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, the last rebel-held western city

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ryan Lucas
Friends and relatives chant anti-government slogans during the funeral of Mahmoud Maki Abu Taki, 22, who died during clashes between Bahraini anti-government protesters and riot police on Thursday, in Sitra village, Bahrain, Friday, Feb. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) (AP)

Bahrain’s army fires on protesters

Hadeel Al-shalchi
** ADDS BYLINE ** A relative, no name available, of 20-year-old Ali Abdul Hadi Mushaima, alledgedly killed in clashes with security forces Monday, reacts during the funeral to burial Daih, Bahrain Tuesday, Feb.15, 2011. Protesters demanding sweeping political reforms from Bahrain's rulers held their ground Wednesday in an Egypt-style occupation of the capital's landmark square. (AP Photo/James Lawler Duggan) (AP)

Army seizes control in Bahrain, police raid protests

Hadeel Al-shalchi
Map locates Benghazi, Libya, where there are protests to ouster the government (AP)

Protests spread: Bahrain, Yemen and now Libya

Hadeel Al-shalchi
Unidentified Egyptian army major generals greet people as they walk through Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011. Egypt exploded with joy, tears, and relief after pro-democracy protesters brought down President Hosni Mubarak on Friday with a momentous march on his palaces and state TV. The ruling military pledged Saturday to eventually hand power to an elected civilian government and reassured allies that Egypt will abide by its peace treaty with Israel. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) (AP)

On first day as Egypt’s ruler, army seeks to reassure

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ben Hubbard
Anti-government protesters sit and lie inside the tracks of an Egyptian Army tank, both to prevent them from moving and to shield themselves from the rain, at the protest site opposite the Egyptian Museum near Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. Egypt's vice president met a broad representation of major opposition groups for the first time Sunday and agreed to allow freedom of the press and to release those detained since anti-government protests began, though Al-Jazeera's English-language news network said one of its correspondents had been detained the same day by the Egyptian military. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Egyptian government makes new promises of reform

Salah Nasrawi, Hadeel Al-shalchi
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's supporters scuffle with anti-government protesters near the Tahrir (Liberation) Square, early Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Mubarak announced he will not run for a new term in September elections but rejected protesters' demands he step down immediately and leave the country, vowing to die on Egypt's soil, after a dramatic day in which a quarter-million Egyptians staged their biggest protest yet calling on him to go. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

Pro- and anti-government supporters clash in Cairo

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Sarah El Deeb
In this image made from video broadcast on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appears on television saying he has asked his Cabinet to resign, in his first appearance on television since protests erupted demanding his ouster. (AP Photo/Egypt TV) (AP)

Egyptian president asks Cabinet to resign

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Hamza Hendawi
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Egypt: Hero’s welcome planned for ex-nuclear boss

Hadeel Al-shalchi