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The U.N. Security Council meets on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, to consider new sanctions against Libya to halt a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters, but members disagreed over a proposal to refer Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and top aides to an international war crimes tribunal. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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A Libyan youths looks at a portrait of Libyan leader Moammar Ghadafi which he set alight in a destroyed conference room inside the Brega oil complex, in Brega, eastern of Libya, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. The embattled regime of Moammar Gadhafi is arming civilian supporters to set up checkpoints and roving patrols around the Libyan capital to control movement and quash dissent, residents said Saturday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Chinese citizens wait aboard the "Palermo Grimaldi" ferry at the harbor in Valletta, Malta, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, after being evacuated from Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon greets Libya's U.N. ambassador, Mohamed Shalgham, after a meeting of the Security Council at the United Nations in New York on Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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A man walks through roadblocks made by residents in the Tajoura district of eastern Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. Residents there have blocked many streets with roadblocks after protesters demanding Moammar Gadhafi's ouster came under a hail of bullets Friday when pro-regime militiamen opened fire to stop the first significant anti-government marches in days in the Libyan capital. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Egyptian protesters gather to demand Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi step down during demonstrations in Tahrir Square in Cairo Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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Protesters shout slogans against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi during a demonstration at the court square, in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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A Libyan protester holds up a sign as she shouts slogans against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi during the demonstration before Friday prayers, in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Libyan mourners carry the coffins three protesters who were killed last week during the demonstrations against Libyan Leader Moammar Ghadafi, in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday Feb. 25, 2011. Militias loyal to Col. Gadhafi are reported to have opened fire on protesters streaming out of mosques in the Libyan capital on Friday, witnesses said, reporting at least four killed. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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A popular committee member, right, escorts a suspected mercenary soldier from his cell at the court in Benghazi, Libya, Friday Feb. 25, 2011. Anti-Gadhafi forces said they had captured the men in their successful fight for control of Benghazi, the country's second-largest city, where mercenaries are being blamed for killing scores of protesters. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Suspected African mercenaries sit in a cell at the court in Benghazi, Libya, Friday Feb. 25, 2011. Anti-Gadhafi forces said they had captured the men in their successful fight for control of Benghazi, the country's second-largest city, where mercenaries are being blamed for killing scores of protesters. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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A suspected mercenary is held in a cell at the court in Benghazi, Libya, Friday Feb. 25, 2011. Anti-Gadhafi forces said they had captured the men in their successful fight for control of Benghazi, the country's second-largest city, where mercenaries are being blamed for killing scores of protesters. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese nationals wait for Greek vessels chartered by the Chinese government, which are pulling in to shore at Benghazi port, Libya, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. The situation in Libya has grown increasingly unstable, with forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi trying to roll back the uprising against his rule that has advanced closer to his stronghold in Tripoli, attacking two nearby cities in battles. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yu Yang)
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Egyptians, who used to work in Libya, and fled the unrest in the country wait for their breakfast in a makeshift refugee camp set up by the Tunisian army, at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Libyan gunmen flash the V signs as they stand on a military truck with an anti-aircraft machine gun at Al-Katiba military base after it fell to anti-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi protesters few days ago, in Benghazi, Libya, on Thursday Feb. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Traders work the crude oil options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange on Thursday as unrest in Libya sent prices up to nearly $100 a barrel. Traders are worried that revolt could spread to other countries in the Middle East, such as petroleum-rich Saudi Arabia. (Associated Press)
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A Libyan man who was injured during a demonstration last week against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi lies on a bed at a hospital, in Benghazi, Libya, on Thursday Feb. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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A Libyan mortuary assistant inspects an unidentified calcinated body of a person killed during last week's demonstrations against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, at a morgue, in Benghazi, Libya, Thursday Feb. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Gunmen prepared to fight against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi stand on a small military truck with weapons taken from a Libyan military base, in Benghazi, Libya, on Thursday Feb. 24, 2011. Army units and militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi struck back Thursday against rebellious Libyans who have risen up in cities close to the capital, attacking a mosque where many were holding an anti-government sit-in and battling others who seized control of an airport. Medical officials said 15 people were killed in the clashes. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Libyan citizens stand atop a destroyed armored vehicle at Al-Katiba military base, in Benghazi, Libya, Thursday Feb. 24, 2011. In cities across the east, residents rose up and overwhelmed government buildings and army bases, joined in many cases by local army units that defected. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
