The Arab Revolution of 2011
Relatives of Bangladeshi workers in Libya wait outside the Dhaka international airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, March 2, 2011. The United Nationssays its migration agency has chartered flights to bring home nearly 400 Bangladeshis from Libya after they fled the violence there to the borders of Tunisia and Egypt. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)
Russian passengers wait to board coaches after disembarking from the Russian-chartered ferry Sveti Stefan II after it arrived with some 400 East Europeanevacuees from Ras Lanuf in Libya, at Valletta's Grand Harbour March 2, 2011. Some 13,000 people have been evacuated from Libya to Malta since the crisis broke out, according to local officials. Reuters/Darrin Zammit Lupi
Russian passengers wait to board coaches after disembarking from the Russian-chartered ferry Sveti Stefan II after it arrived with some 400 East Europeanevacuees from Ras Lanuf in Libya, at Valletta's Grand Harbour March 2, 2011. Some 13,000 people have been evacuated from Libya to Malta since the crisis broke out, according to local officials. Reuters/Darrin Zammit Lupi
Russian passengers walks to the arrival terminal after disembarking from the Russian-chartered ferry Sveti Stefan II after it arrived with some 400 EastEuropean evacuees from Ras Lanuf in Libya, at Valletta's Grand Harbour March 2, 2011. Some 13,000 people have been evacuated from Libya to Malta since the crisis broke out, according to local officials. Reuters/Darrin Zammit Lupi
A man holds up a poster of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi, one of several distributed among a crowd gathered to view a burning fuel truck, in TripoliMarch 2, 2011. Authorities said the incident was a road traffic accident. The posters were distributed when members of the media turned up at the scene. Reuters/Chris Helgren
Libyan fire fighters spray water and chemicals on a burning fuel truck in Tripoli March 2, 2011. Authorities said the incident was a road traffic accident.… Reuters/Chris Helgren
A man holds up a poster of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi, one of several distributed among a crowd gathered to view a burning fuel truck, in TripoliMarch 2, 2011. Authorities said the incident was a road traffic accident. The posters were distributed when members of the media turned up at the scene. Reuters/Chris Helgren
Emergency services attend to the scene of a fuel-tanker explosion, which security forces at the scene said was due to a road accident, in Tripoli, LibyaWednesday, March 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Pro-Gadhafi supporters chant in support of the Libyan Leader at the scene of a fuel-tanker explosion, which security forces at the scene said was due toa road accident, in Tripoli, Libya, Wednesday, March 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
British Royal Navy frigate HMS Cumberland is seen docked at the Benghazi harbour in Libya on February 24, after it arrived to evacuate more than 100 Britishnationals. Any remaining Britons still in Libya have been urged to make their way to Benghazi to board a British navy destroyer on its way to the port, as Prime Minister David Cameron steps up pressure on Moamer Kadhafi. (AFP/File/Gianluigi Guercia)
The U.S. Navy's USS Kearsarge amphibious assault ship anchors off Santa Marta in this September 5, 2008 file photo. Two U.S. warships were passingthrough the Suez Canal on their way to waters off Libya on Wednesday as Western nations exerted diplomatic and military pressure on Muammar Gaddafi to step down. Amphibious assault ships, USS Kearsarge, which can carry 2,000 Marines, and USS Ponce, entered the canal on Wednesday en route to the Mediterranean. Reuters/Fredy Builes/Files
A Libyan opposition fighter stands by an anti-aircraft machine gun in the city of Ajdabiya. The United Nations suspended Libya from its main human rightsbody over Moamer Kadhafi's crackdown on protests as the Security Council warned of new action against his regime. (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia)
Protesters opposed to leader Muammar Gaddafi climb on the tank of Libyan army defectors in the centre of the city of Zawiyah, 50 km (30 miles) west ofthe capital Tripoli, March 1, 2011. Libya could descend into civil war if Gaddafi refuses to quit, the United States said on Tuesday, its demand for his departure carrying fresh weight after news of Western military preparations. Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a Libyan aid convoy which consists of 18 trucks and an ambulance carrying food and medicines headto the eastern city of Benghazi, in the town of Qasr bin Ghashir, south of Tripoli, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Hamza Turkia)
Registering forces : Libyan civilians gather around an anti-aircraft gun as they register in the opposition forces in Benghazi.… (AFP/Marco Longari
Manning the guns : A Libyan opposition forces fighter manages a mobile anti-aircraft position in the city of Ajdabiya, 160kms west of Benghazi.… (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia)
Embassy presence : Hana Ben Ghalbon joins other protesters carrying the pre-Kadhafi Libyan national flag as they speak to the press about the current eventsin Libya, outside the Libyan embassy in Washington. (AFP/Rod Lamkey Jr)
Benghazi fighter : A Libyan opposition army soldier covers his head with a flag outside an army barrack in Benghazi.… (AFP/Marco Longari)
Libyan civilians gather around an anti-aircraft gun as they register in the opposition forces in Benghazi. US defense leaders on Tuesday played down thelikelihood of imposing a no-fly zone on Libya, urging a cautious approach to any military action against Moamer Khadafi's forces. (AFP/Marco Longari
A wrecked car burns in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. World powers are ramping up the pressure on Moamer Kadhafi's regime, while the United Stateshas urged the international community to work together on further steps to end bloodshed in Libya. (AFP/Patrick Baz)
Libyan defected soldiers load at the back of a pick-up truck cartridge belts and anti-aircraft weapons at a military base in the eastern city of Benghazi.… (AFP/Marco Longari
Screengrab provided by ABC News shows embattled Libyan leader Colonel Moamer Kadhafi speaking during during a TV interview in Tripoli on Sunday. The NorthAfrican strongman has insisted his people loved him but has been slammed as "delusional" by the US which has also slapped a record-breaking $30 billion in sanctions on his brutal regime. (AFP/HO/ABC news)
Kadhafi lies in an abandoned and vandalized army barrack in the city of Ajdabiya, 160kms west of Benghazi,as western governments choked off funding to the Moamer Kadhafi regime after the United Nations and European Union imposed sanctions. (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia)
A Libyan opposition fighter stands by an anti-aircraft machine gun in the city of Ajdabiya, 160kms west of Benghazi,. Libyan rebels said they have formeda military council in Benghazi in what could be a step towards creating a unified nationwide force against leader Moamer Kadhafi. (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia)
Libyan civilians wait outside an office of the rebel army in the eastern city of Benghazi to volunteer for a new force that plans to head towards Tripoli.The West edged closer on Tuesday to military action against Moamer Kadhafi as the United States said air strikes would be needed to secure a no-fly zone over Libya, and regime forces tried to retake a key city. (AFP/Marco Longari)
oLibyan anti-government fighters and defected soldiers load a cartridge belt with bullets at the last checkpoint in the city of Ajdabiya, 160kms west ofBenghazi. The West edged closer on Tuesday to military action against Moamer Kadhafi as the United States said air strikes would be needed to secure a no-fly zone over Libya, and regime forces tried to retake a key city. (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia)
