World leaders weigh Libya response

EU considering sending humanitarian intervention force to country, as UK calls for international probe into violence.

Al Jazeera, 24 Feb 2011 18:21 GMT

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UN to meet on Libya violence

The UN Security Council will meet on Friday and may push for sanctions to deter government-sponsored violence.

Al Jazeera, 25 Feb 2011 02:16 GMT

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US mulls all options against Libya

Barack Obama orders his national security team to prepare the full range of options for dealing with the crisis.

Al Jazeera, 23 Feb 2011 23:20 GMT

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As Libya uprising reaches Tripoli Gaddafi vows to 'open up the arsenals'

Gaddafi gives a defiant speech to cheering supporters, as witnesses report indiscriminate firing on demonstrators

Ian Black, guardian.co.uk, Friday 25 February 2011

Libya's uprising reached the heart of Tripoli on Friday as anti-regime demonstrators defied a security clampdown to demand Muammar Gaddafi's overthow amid hopes that key military units in the west of the country would defect.

Gunmen in cars reportedly opened fire on protesters as they streamed out of mosques after Friday prayers. Witnesses described shooting in streets near Green Square in the heart of the city.

Information remained patchy, confused and sometimes contradictory, but up to seven people were reported shot dead in Janzour, Fashlum, Bin Ashour, Zawiyat al-Dahmani and other urban areas. "Security forces fired indiscriminately on the demonstrators," said one resident.

Later, however, Gaddafi appeared in Green Square to give another angry and defiant speech to crowds of supporters waving banners and cheering him — a message that he is alive and in control — as he pledged to "open up the arsenals"....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/25/protests-reach-tripoli-gaddafi-speech-shooting

Gaddafi addresses Tripoli crowd

Libyan leader makes unexpected appearance in capital's Green Square to speak to supporters.

Al Jazeera, 25 Feb 2011

....Read a transcript of his remarks, in a translation made as he appeared on Libyan state TV on Friday....

http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011/02/2011225173024971457.html

UN votes to impose sanctions on Gaddafi and referral to war crimes tribunal

By Colin Lynch, Washington Post, 34 minutes ago

UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council voted unanimously Saturday night to impose military and financial sanctions against Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi and his inner circle and to refer his regime's crackdown on protesters to a war crimes tribunal for an investigation of possible crimes against humanity.

The move came as President Obama for the first time called on Gaddafi to step down...