Libya

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a news conference at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Thursday, June 9, 2011, following the Third Contact Group Meeting on Libya. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

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A plume of smoke rises following an airstrike in Tripoli, Libya, on May 24, 2011. The Obama administration reached out Tuesday to the Libyan rebels and said Moammar Gadhafi would "inevitably" be forced from power as the U.S.-backed NATO coalition launched a withering bombardment on the Libyan leader's stronghold of Tripoli. (Associated Press)

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Combat helicopters are readied on the deck of the French navy vessel BPC Tonnerre in the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday, June 4, 2011, before British Apache and French attack helicopters struck targets for the first time in NATO's campaign in Libya. (AP Photo/Arnaud Roine/ECPAD)

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A young boy holds a weapon given to him by a rebel fighter as he poses for a portrait after Friday prayers in Benghazi, Libya, June 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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"I left the country and decided also to leave my job and to join the choice of Libyan youth to create a modern constitutional state respecting human rights and building a better future for all Libyans," said Shokri Ghanem, formerly Libya's top oil official, who defected to Rome on Wednesday. (AP Photo)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Col. Moammar Gadhafi's portrait hangs behind a window that reflects people gathering this week at the dictator's Bab al-Aziziya compound, a regular target of NATO airstrikes in Tripoli, Libya.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Col. Moammar Gadhafi's portrait hangs behind a window that reflects people from several African countries gathering this week at the dictator's Bab al-Aziziya compound, a regular target of NATO airstrikes in Tripoli, Libya.

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"I left the country and decided also to leave my job and to join the choice of Libyan youth to create a modern constitutional state respecting human rights and building a better future for all Libyans." said Libya's former top oil official, Shokri Ghanem, who defected to Rome on Wednesday

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A promotion for the new Libya Alhurra, or "Free Libya," satellite TV station appears on a large screen in Benghazi, the rebel stronghold. The station provides a means for the rebels trying to wrest control from the country from Col. Moammar Gadhafi (shown) to get their message out to the public.

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Associated Press Libyan rebel fighters cross the front line between their forces and those of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, about 15 miles west from Misrata, Libya, on Thursday. Tripoli has proposed a cease-fire.

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JosŽ Emmanuel Piaggessi (left), 23, an Argentinean that fights with rebel forces, collects ammunition on May 26, 2011, from a pick-up at the front line between them and Moammar Gadhafi forces, 25 kilometers west from Misrata, Libya. (Associated Press)

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Smoke rises from a ship that was hit in an airstrike at a sea port in Tripoli, Libya, on May 20, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Rebel fighters act as security in downtown Benghazi, Libya, on May 19, 2011. (Associated Press)

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A Libyan rebel fighter pours a cup of tea at the last checkpoint that allows the presence of reporters before the front line in Ajdabiya, Libya, on Tuesday, May 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Libyan rebel fighter Yamen Saad, 28, pulls security duty at the last checkpoint that allows the presence of reporters before the front line in Ajdabiya, Libya, on Tuesday, May 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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** FILE ** Shukri Ghanem, Libyan oil minister and head of the state-run National Oil Corp., addresses a news conference in Tripoli, Libya, on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS The International Criminal Court prosecutor has asked judges to issue an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi citing crimes against humanity.

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Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, a son of former Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi's, speaks to the media at a press conference in a hotel in Tripoli, Libya, in February 2011. (Associated Press)

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In this image taken from Associated Press Television News footage, an unidentified man runs away from a shelled checkpoint near the port area of Misrata, Libya, on Sunday, May 15, 2011 after Libyan government forces fired more than two dozen Grad rockets and mortars towards the area. (AP Photo/APTN, Dalton Bennett)