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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.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenBanner 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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Defecting Libyan diplomats are among those saying there's a "massacre" taking place in their country and demanding that Colonel Moammar Gadhafi step down after 41 years in power. 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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