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Conflict in Libya, Week 17

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Rebel fighters fire a Grad rocket at the front line west of Misrata, Libya, Monday, June 20, 2011. Libya's government said a NATO airstrike west of Tripoli early Monday destroyed a large family compound belonging to a close associate of Moammar Gadhafi, killing at least 15 people, including three children. The alliance said the strike hit a \"command and control\" center. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
— Hassan Ammar / AP
Image: A Libyan man cries outside a house where his cousin was killed in a rocket strike on the rebel-held city of Misrata

A Libyan man cries outside a house where his cousin, a 13-year-old boy, was killed and two children were wounded in a rocket strike on the rebel-held city of Misrata, June 20, 2011. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT MILITARY)
— Zohra Bensemra / X90036
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In this photo taken on a government-organized tour Libyan firefighters work on ruins of destroyed building in the Galil compound, in the city of Surman, some 60 km (40 miles) west of Tripoli, Libya, on Monday, June 20, 2011. Libya's government said a NATO airstrike early Monday on a large family compound belonging to Khoweildi al-Hamidi , close associate of Moammar Gadhafi, has killed at least 15 people, including three children, west of Tripoli. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
— Ivan Sekretarev / AP
Image: A Libyan family shops at a supermarket in the Libyan rebel-held city of Misrata

A Libyan family shops at a supermarket in the Libyan rebel-held city of Misrata ,where rebels trying to advance on the capital Tripoli are fighting forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, June 20, 2011. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT MILITARY SOCIETY)
— Zohra Bensemra / X90036
Image: Libyan rebel fighters mourn for their comrades, killed during fighting with forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, at a field hospital near Misrata's western front line

Libyan rebel fighters mourn for their comrades, killed during fighting with forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, at a field hospital near Misrata's western front line June 19, 2011. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT MILITARY IMAGES OF THE DAY CIVIL UNREST)
— Zohra Bensemra / X90036
Image: Libyans check the rubble of a house damaged by coalition air strikes, according to the Libyan government, in Tripoli

EDITOR'S NOTE: PICTURE TAKEN ON A GUIDED GOVERNMENT TOUR. Libyans check the rubble of a house damaged by coalition air strikes, according to the Libyan government, in Tripoli June 19, 2011. RUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)
— Ahmed Jadallah / X90013
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A Libyan girl holds the rebellion's flag during an anti-Kadhafi demonstration on June 19, 2011 in the streets of the rebel-stronghold of Benghazi in eastern Libya, as nine people were killed and 51 were wounded in fighting around Misrata when forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi used heavy artillery to bombard the Dafnia sector at the western entrance to the western city, according to rebel officials. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
— Gianluigi Guercia / AFP
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A Libyan man raises his AK47 gun, with an US flag, ahead of the Friday noon prayer on June 17, 2011, in the Libyan rebel-stronghold city of Benghazi. Libyan rebel chief Mahmud Jibril denied reports by a Russian envoy that the insurgents had been negotiating with Moamer Kadhafi's regime. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
— Gianluigi Guercia / AFP
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In this photo taken on a government-organized tour a Libyan man dances as he and others rally in Green Square in Tripoli, Libya, on Friday, June 17, 2011. Provoked by renewed daylight NATO bombing of his capital, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi raged against the alliance Friday, screaming his message and daring Western forces to keep it up. Gadhafi spoke in a telephone call that was piped through loudspeakers to a few thousand people demonstrating in Tripoli's Green Square, at the end of a day when NATO intensified bombing runs across the capital. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
— Ivan Sekretarev / AP
Image: A general view of Wenzrik hotel, which, according to the owner of the hotel, is damaged by coalition air strikes, in Tripoli

EDITOR'S NOTE: PICTURE TAKEN ON A GUIDED GOVERNMENT TOUR. A general view of Wenzrik hotel, which, according to the owner of the hotel, is damaged by coalition air strikes, in Tripoli June 16, 2011. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY)
— Ahmed Jadallah / X90013
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A Libyan mechanic welds a weapon shield on a pick up truck in an industrial college turned into a weapons workshop in Misrata, Libya, Thursday, June 16, 2011. Libyan civilians maintain and build weapons in schools across the city to send to the front lines. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
— Hassan Ammar / AP
Image: Libyans carry the coffin of a rebel fighter killed during clashes with forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, on the outskirts of the western town of Riyayna

Libyans carry the coffin of a rebel fighter killed during clashes with forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, on the outskirts of the western town of Riyayna, June 15, 2011. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT)
— Youssef Boudlal / X02771
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A former Libyan air force officer stands next to a child sitting on a MiG-23 that used to belong to the Libyan air force but now bears the revolution flag, during a ceremony in honour of air force officers killed during the Libyan uprising against Moamer Kadhafi at Revolution Square in the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi on June 15, 2011. AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
— Gianluigi Guercia / AFP
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Rebel take cover during a heavy clashes with pro-Moammar Gadhafi forces at the front line of Dafniya, west of Misrata, Libya, Wednesday , June 15, 2011. In recent days rebel forces have advanced along the Mediterranean coast toward Zlitan, but say they have been instructed by NATO to withdraw _ ahead of expected bombing runs _ to old front lines in Dafniya, 16 miles (25 kilometers) west of Misrata. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
— Hassan Ammar / AP
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A Libyan rebel closes the eyes of a loyalist Kadhafi soldier killed in the village of Ryayna, east of the heavily fought-over hilltown of Zintan in the mainly Berber Nafusa mountains, southwest of Tripoli, on June 14, 2011. The village of some 10,000 residents, now under rebel control, is located on a strategic route connecting Zintan and Yefren, two towns rebels hope to wrest from the forces of Libya's embattled leader Kadhafi. AFP PHOTO/FLORENT MARCIE (Photo credit should read FLORENT MARCIE/AFP/Getty Images)
— Florent Marcie / AFP
Image: A Libyan volunteer prepares a grave for the body of one of the six soldiers loyal to Gaddafi that were left behind, at a cemetery in Misrata

A Libyan volunteer prepares a grave for the body of one of the six soldiers loyal to Muammar Gaddafi that were left behind after his forces were pushed back in the direction of Zlitan during fighting along the western front line, at a cemetery in the western Libyan city Misrata June 15, 2011. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (LIBYA - Tags: CONFLICT)
— Zohra Bensemra / X90036
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JEAN-PIERRE CAMPAGNE A picture shows the abandoned construction site of the \"New Benghazi\" project in the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi on June 14, 2011. Hundreds of cement mixers, cranes, and forklifts stand silent on a massive construction site among grey buildings left unfinished when Chinese workers abandoned Libya as fighting flared. AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
— Gianluigi Guercia / AFP
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About one hundred demonstrators shout slogans against Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's regime and in support of the Syrian uprising against President Bashar al-Assad during a protest on Benghazi's seaside promenade on June 14, 2011. AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
— Gianluigi Guercia / AFP
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