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Libyan rebels celebrate next to burning cars after Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces where pushed back from 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 Muammar Gaddafi's forces. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa discuss in the Elysee Palace in Paris, during a crisis summit on Libya, Saturday, March, 19, 2011. Britain and France took the lead in plans to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya on Friday, sending British warplanes to the Mediterranean and announcing a crisis summit in Paris with the U.N. and Arab allies. (AP Photo/Lionel Bonaventure, Pool)

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A warplane of Gadhafi's forces is seen being shot down 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 Muammar Gaddafi's forces. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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President Obama makes a statement Friday on Libya in the East Room of the White House. (Associated Press)

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A Libyan rebel grimaces on the frontline near Sultan, south of Benghazi, Libya, Friday, March 18, 2011. The U.N. Security Council voted Thursday to impose a no-fly zone over Libya and authorize "all necessary measures" to protect civilians from attacks by Moammar Gadhafi's forces, hours after the Libyan leader vowed to crush the rebellion with a final assault on the opposition capital of Benghazi. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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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 on 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)

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** FILE ** Four New York Times journalists working in Libya — (from left) photographer Lynsey Addario, reporter Stephen Farrell, photographer Tyler Hicks and Beirut Bureau Chief Anthony Shadid — were reported missing on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. (AP Photo/New York Times/Associated Press)

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Libyan soldiers loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi are seen on the western entrance of the city of Ajdabiya, Libya, on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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Supporters of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, the Libyan leader, celebrate on Green Square in Tripoli, Libya, on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, following an announcement on state television that Col. Gadhafi's forces had retaken the eastern city of Ajdabiya. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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After an announcement on Libyan state television that Moammar Gadhafi's forces retook the eastern city of Adjabiya, the Libyan strongman's supporters celebrate on Green Square in Tripoli, Libya, on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Three supporters of Col. Moammar Gadhafi celebrate on Green Square in Tripoli, Libya, on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, after an announcement on state TV that pro-Gadhafi troops had taken the eastern city of Ajdabiya. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives at Le Bourget Airport north of Paris on Monday, March 14, 2011, for talks with European and other leaders on the crisis in Libya. (AP Photo/Paul J Richards, Pool)

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Libyan students shout slogans during a pro-Gadhafi rally in the parking lot of the Rixos Hotel, where the foreign press is staying, in Tripoli, Libya, on Monday, March 14, 2011. Teachers brought the students from neighborhood schools to demonstrate. The signs read, "God, Moammar and Libya." (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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Libyan rebels opposed to Col. Moammar Gadhafi shout slogans against the leader from atop their vehicle along a desert road between the towns of Agela and Ras Lanouf in eastern Libya on Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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A Libyan rebel, wounded in fighting against pro-regime forces, is wheeled into a hospital in Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya, on Wednesday. Forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi pounded opposition forces with artillery barrages and gunfire in at least two major cities. (Associated Press)

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AFLAME: Anti-Gadhafi rebels transport a multiple-rocket launcher Wednesday as flames rise from a fuel-storage facility that was attacked in fighting with pro-Gadhafi forces, in Sedra, Libya. (Associated Press)

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A Libyan rebel looks on as smoke rises Wednesday from a fuel-storage facility that was attacked during fighting against Col. Gadhafi's fighters in Sedra, Libya. (Associated Press)

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Anti-Moammar Gadhafi rebel looks on as smoke rises from a fuel storage facility that was attacked during fighting against pro-Gadhafi fighters, in Sedra, eastern Libya, on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Col. Gadhafi appeared to be keeping up the momentum he has seized in recent days in his fight against rebels trying to move on the capital, Tripoli, from territory they hold in eastern Libya. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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An anti-Moammar Gadhafi rebel sit next to a mulitiple rockets launcher as flames rises from a fuel storage facility that attacked during a fighting against pro-Gadhafi fighters, in Sidr town, eastern Libya, on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. A high-ranking member of the Libyan military flew to Cairo on Wednesday with a message for Egyptian army officials from Col. Gadhafi, whose troops pounded opposition forces with artillery barrages and gunfire in at least two major cities. Col. Gadhafi appeared to be keeping up the momentum he has seized in recent days in his fight against rebels trying to move on the capital, Tripoli, from territory they hold in eastern Libya. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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An anti-Moammar Gadhafi rebel fires an anti-aircraft machine gun against pro-Gadhafi warplanes flying overhead, in Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya, on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Col. Gadhafi appears to be keeping up the momentum he has seized in recent days in his fight against rebels trying to move on the capital, Tripoli, from territory they hold in eastern Libya.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)