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Posters are displayed during a May 12 protest against Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi outside Downing Street in London. The poster on the left contains a photo of British photojournalist Tim Hetherington, who was killed in Libya. (Associated Press)

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In this image made from Libyan TV, Col. Moammar Gadhafi holds a meeting with tribal leaders from eastern Libya in Tripoli, Libya, on Wednesday, May 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Libyan TV via APTN)

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Rebel soldiers stand guard Wednesday at a checkpoint called the Western Gate on the road leading to the front line and the oil town of Brega, at Ajdabiya, Libya. (Associated Press)

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In this photo taken on a government-organized tour, Libyan government officials and the media move through the ruins of an official building following a NATO airstrike in Tripoli, Libya, early on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

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Motorists wait to fill up their cars with fuel in Tripoli, Libya, on Sunday, May 8, 2011. Fuel shortages are a harsh sign of how Libya's plunge into chaos is affecting the Libyan capital, stronghold of the country's defiant leader, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, and western areas of the nation under his rule. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Injured Libyans lie in an intensive-care until at Hikma Hospital in the besieged city of Misrata, Libya. Doctors say they are running low on medical supplies since attacks by Col. Moammar Gadhafi's troops on the port have halted boat traffic for the past several days.

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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini (right) welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome during the second meeting of the Contact Group on Libya on Thursday, May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Deputy U.N. Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi (right) hugs Libya's U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Shalgham after a meeting of the Security Council at United Nations headquarters in February. Tension was high at the time after fighting broke out between pro- and anti-Gadhafi forces.

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Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's deputy ambassador at the United Nations

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Protesters chant anti-U.S. slogans May 1 in front of the Gadhafi family compound in a residential area of Tripoli, Libya. (Associated Press)

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Supporters of Libyan strongman Col. Moammar Gadhafi inspect damage early Monday after an airstrike in Tripoli, Libya. The strike on Col. Gadhafi's sprawling residential compound badly damaged two buildings. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, said the only way to remove Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi from power is to get his inner circle to turn on him. (Associated Press)

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A convoy takes Sen. John McCain from the Tebisty Hotel in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday before meeting with rebel leaders. Mr. McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the United States and other nations should recognize the opposition's political leadership as the "legitimate voice of the Libyan people." (Associated Press)

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, said the only way to remove Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi from power is to get his inner circle to turn on him. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Holding a poster of their leader, supporters of Moammar Gadhafi chant slogans following a NATO airstrike in Tripoli, Libya, early Saturday, April 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

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A Libyan rebel on horseback holds his weapon up during a march on behalf of prisoners of war and the missing in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Alaguri)

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Libyan rebel fighters drive by a previously destroyed tank belonging to Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces as the rebels make their way to the front line on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya, on Wednesday, April 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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On Tuesday, April 19, 2011, rebels in Benghazi, Libya, carry the coffin of a comrade who they said was killed by forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi during fighting in Brega. (AP Photo)

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Workmen prepare a Grad rocket launcher for operation at a Libyan rebel weapons workshop and training camp in Benghazi, Libya, on Tuesday, April 19, 2011. The rebels are hard at work training new recruits and making operational the mostly decades-old captured heavy weapons that Col. Moammar Gadhafi forces left behind, but the rebels are struggling to overpower the better-trained and -equipped forces they are facing in the eastern desert. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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A Libyan rebel fighter reads his Koran next to a tank of the pro-Gadhafi forces that was destroyed near Ajdabiya, Libya. The loyal forces have changed their tactics since NATO airstrikes began. (Associated Press)