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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, right, speaks with British Foreign Secretary William Hague in the Qatari capital Doha at meeting of the Libya Contact Group Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Libyan rebels are in Qatar's capital to call for stronger international pressure on Moammar Gadhafi's regime as Western and Arab envoys gather to discuss options.
Airport workers unload boxes from a French plane after it landed with 10 tonnes of medical supplies, at the airport, in the rebel-held city of Benghazi, in eastern Libya, on April 13, 2011. World powers rallied behind Libyan rebels as they guested a global stage for a first time today, with Italy and Qatar saying they need arms to defend themselves and Britain urging regional aid.
Volunteer fighters look on before taking part in a weapon training session at a military camp in Benghazi April 13, 2011. Libya's rebels have shown themselves incapable of consolidating any advance against Muammar Gaddafi's better armed and trained army on the eastern front, despite NATO strikes.
Volunteer fighters learn how to prepare heavy calibre ammunition during a weapon training session at a military camp in Benghazi April 13, 2011. Britain pressured other NATO members to beef up ground attacks in Libya on Wednesday as foreign ministers met in Qatar to try to open the deadlock in the country's civil war.
A rebel fighter sits atop pick-up trucks mounted with rocket launchers taken off helicopter gunships, at the frontline along the western entrance of Ajdabiyah April 13, 2011.
Mahmud Shammam, a spokesman for the rebel Transitional National Council, speaks to the press in the Qatari capital Doha on April 13, 2011, as Libyan rebels seeking international recognition are to tell world powers at the meeting in Doha that Moamer Kadhafi's departure is the only way out of Libya's crisis.
Libyan rebels walk past caricatures of Libya's leader Moamer Kadhafi, in the rebel-held city of Benghazi, in eastern Libya, on April 14, 2011, as NATO threw its weight behind an international call for Kadhafi to leave power, according to a declaration adopted by member states' foreign ministers.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and other NATO countries Foreign Ministers and representatives gather for a group photo in front of the Brandenburger Tor on April 14, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The principal focus of the two-day meeting will be the alliance military involvement in the war in Libya, though it also includes special roundtables on the alliance«s relationship to Russia, Ukraine and Georgia.
Aisha Gaddafi, daughter of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi, greets her father's supporters at the heavily fortified Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli April 14, 2011.
Supporters of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi chant during a pro-government rally at the heavily fortified Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli April 14, 2011. Muammar Gaddafi's daughter said the West's demand that her father leave power was an "insult" to all Libyans in a defiant appearance before a crowd of his chanting supporters in Tripoli early on Friday.
Aisha Gadhafi, daughter of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, waves at Libyan people gathering at the Bab Al Azizia compound in Tripoli, Libya, early Friday, April 15, 2011. Below is a phrase reading in Arabic "Allah is great".
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi raises his arms as he travels in a convoy through the streets of Tripoli in this still image taken from video April 14, 2011. Libyan state television on Thursday broadcast footage of Gaddafi driving around Tripoli in an open-top vehicle and said he went on the outing while the Libyan capital was being bombed by NATO. Wearing a green safari hat, dark glasses and a black jacket, Gaddafi pumped his fists in the air and waved as pedestrians chased his convoy of SUVs through the streets.
A member of the German police secures the area next to the Brandenburger Tor gate during a NATO Foreign Minister meeting in Berlin April 14, 2011. The building in the background is the U.S. embassy to Germany.
A two-day conference of Foreign Ministers from NATO and partner countries at the German capital of Berlin foscuing on the UN-mandated NATO military operation in Libya.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe made a personal appeal to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for Washington to resume major air raids in Libya, but he said his plea was rebuffed.
"I told her we needed them back, we would have liked them to return," Juppe said, adding that Clinton said US planes would continue to fly on a case-by-case basis.
Washington pulled back around 50 combat planes from Libyan operations last week after handing over control of the mission to NATO, although since then they took part in some missions to take our Gaddafi's air defence systems.
With nearly 100,000 US troops fighting a grinding war in Afghanistan, US President Barack Obama's administration decided to move into a back-up role in Libya and leave the fighting to its European and Canadian allies.
"For our part, the US is committed to our shared mission. We will strongly support the coalition until our work is completed," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told her counterparts during a working lunch.
"We are also sharing the same goal which is to see the end of the Gaddafi regime in Libya," she said earlier at a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Libyan anti-government sympathizers conduct Friday Muslim prayers in a central square near the sea April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Life in the rebel capital of Benghazi continues, even as troops loyal to Gaddafi battle with rebel fighters at front lines about 100 miles away, and while residents wonder whether they can escape the pull of Gaddafi's 42-year long rule.
Fire and smoke rises from a storage warehouse at a construction site that is run by a foreign company, with no clear causes of the incident, in Benghazi, Libya Friday, April 15, 2011. Troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi unleashed heavy shelling Friday on Misrata, pushing troops and tanks into the rebel-held western city, a witness said, while NATO officials struggled to overcome differences over its mission to dislodge the defiant Libyan leader.
Armed Libyan rebel fighters stand guard as hundreds of men and women (unseen) perform the Friday noon prayer outdoors in the eastern Libyan port of Benghazi on April 15, 2011. The United Nations has warned that it was running out of funds to finance its relief operations in Libya and neighbouring countries, where many of those who were displaced by violence have fled.
