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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou (right) shakes hands with Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Abdel Ati al-Obeidi on Sunday. Mr. Papandreou has been consulting with other nations on diplomatic initiatives to end the war in Libya. (Associated Press)

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, talks about the possibility of a government shutdown over a budget impasse and U.S. military action in Libya on CBS' "Face the Nation" in Washington on Sunday, April 3, 2011. (AP Photo/CBS, Chris Usher)

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A boy holds a mock gun as a crowd of mostly women and children rally on the corniche in Benghazi, Libya, on Saturday, April 2, 2011, to protest deaths caused by Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces and his continued refusal to step down. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Libyan rebels run for cover after coming under heavy artillery fire from pro-Gadhafi forces along the front line near Brega, Libya, on Friday, April 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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Libyan rebels shout slogans as they hear about air strikes at front line near Brega, Libya, Friday, April 1, 2011. Libya's rebels will agree to a cease-fire if Moammar Gadhafi pulls his military forces out of cities and allows peaceful protests against his regime, an opposition leader said Friday as rebels showed signs that their front-line organization is improving. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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'I'M NO EXPERT': Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Thursday tells lawmakers on Capitol Hill of the $550 million price tag for the conflict in Libya. (Associated Press)

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Smoke from explosions billows on the road between Ajdabiya and Brega in Libya as rebels clashed with troops loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday. U.S. military experts believe NATO will need to rely on the U.S. to handle the bulk of the fighting in Libya because of military cutbacks by the alliance's member nations. (Associated Press)

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Smoke from explosions billows on the road between Ajdabiya and Brega, Libya, as rebels clashed with troops loyal to Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday, March 31, 2011. An important Libyan oil town became a no man's land Thursday as rebels to the east traded rocket and mortar fire with Col. Gadhafi's forces to the west. (AP Photo)

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** FILE ** Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa, who apparently defected to Great Britain on Wednesday, reads a statement to foreign journalists at a hotel in Tripoli on Friday, March 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

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Libyan rebels riding in the back of an armed pickup truck brave a sandstorm on the main road heading to Benghazi while leaving the eastern town of Ajdabiya, Libya, on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Libya's Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa speaks to the media on Mar. 7 at a hotel in Tripoli, Libya. (Associated Press)

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, heavy smoke rises over the Tajoura area, some 30 km east of Tripoli, Libya, after an airstrike on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. (Xinhua/Hamza Turkia)

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Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague (right), listening to Qatar's Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, said after Tuesday's London Conference on Libya the subject of arming rebels did not come up. "That was not one of the subjects for discussion," he said. (Associated Press)

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A Libyan rebel urges people to leave as shelling from Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces starts landing on the front line outside Bin Jawaad, 93 miles east of Sirte, Libya, on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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President Obama shakes hands with military officers after he spoke about Libya at the National Defense University in Washington on Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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

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Associated Press President Obama addresses the nation Monday on the military intervention in Libya, but from the National Defense University, rather than the Oval Office.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Libyan rebels celebrate on the front line outside of Bin Jawaad, east of Sirte, in central Libya on Monday. A rebel who fought in Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawwad, another small eastern town, told The Times on the condition of anonymity that both towns were "100 percent" under the opposition's control.

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Associated Press President Obama addresses the nation Monday night on the military intervention in Libya, but from the National Defense University, rather than the Oval Office.

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