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Libya at a Bloody Crossroads

Estimates of the numbers dead in Libya are reaching into the hundreds: protesters killed by soldiers and by mercenaries from other countries.

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By Warren Olney • Feb 22, 2011 • 50m Listen

Banner Image: A demonstrator holds poster reading 'Gadhafi Get Out' and showing Libya's leader Moammar Gadhafi during a protest against his regime at Taksim Square in Istanbul on February 22, 2010. Turkey's prime minister warned Libya against the 'mistake' of ignoring its people's demands for freedom and rejected criticism at home over a Libyan human rights award he received last year. Photo: Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images

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    Warren Olney

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