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An anti-government rebel sits with an anti-aircraft weapon in front an oil refinery, after the capture of the oil town of Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya, on March 5, 2011. Oil prices climbed to near $107 a barrel Monday as intense fighting between Libyan government forces and rebels appeared to be turning into a civil war and raised the prospect of a prolonged cut in crude exports from the OPEC nation. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
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FILE - Monday, May 14, 2001 file photo of French director Claude Lanzmann during a photocall for his film "Sobibor," at the 54th International Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. An epic French documentary about the Holocaust, dubbed into Farsi, is to be broadcast on a satellite channel in Iran as part of a campaign to promote understanding between Jews and Muslims and to fight Holocaust denial. Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann's renowned 9-plus-hour film "Shoah" includes testimony from concentration camp survivors and employees about the slaughter of millions of Jews in Europe during World War II. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
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A Libyan anti-government rebel lies by the roadside at an advance checkpoint between the town of Ras Lanouf and Bin-Jawad, eastern Libya, Monday, March 7, 2011. An air strike hit Ras Lanouf, a key oil port held by the rebels, on Monday but there were no casualties. A day earlier, a heavy assault by pro-regime forces stalled the rebel advance. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates (right) talks with U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus upon the Pentagon chief's arrival in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Defense Department/Cherie Cullen)
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Smoke raises from a military army base that fell to the rebels opposed to Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi following an airstrike by Libyan warplanes that attacked in the oil town of Ras Lanouf, in eastern Libya, on Sunday, March 6, 2011. The anti-Gadhafi rebels fared better elsewhere, capturing the key oil port of Ras Lanouf from regime forces on Friday night, their first military victory in a potentially long and arduous westward march from the east of the country to Tripoli, the capital. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, White House Chief of Staff William Daley said, "When people comment on military action, most of them have no idea what they're talking about." (Associated Press)
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Pro-Gadhafi supporters set off fireworks at an organised rally in Green Square, Tripoli, Libya Friday, March 4, 2011. In Tripoli, Gadhafi loyalists fired tear gas and live ammunition to smother a new outbreak of protests, while thousands of Gadhafi supporters later packed into the capital's central Green Square, waving green flags and pictures of the Libyan leader in a counterdemonstration complete with fireworks. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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People who worked in Libya but fled the emerging civil war there can only wait and hope for better days Sunday in a refugee camp at the Tunisia-Libyan border in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia. It can shelter about 5,000. (Associated Press)
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Fighters against Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi carry a comrade fatally injured to a hospital in the oil town of Ras Lanouf, in eastern Libya, on Sunday. Thousands of Gadhafi supporters poured into the streets of Tripoli on Sunday, waving flags and firing their guns into the air. (Associated Press)
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SHOW OF FORCE: Supporters of Col. Moammar Gadhafi celebrate at Green Square in Tripoli, Libya, on Sunday while claiming overnight military successes for the longtime dictator. (Associated Press)
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Gadhafi supporters gather to celebrate at Green Square in Tripoli on Sunday. The dictator's security forces control access to ammunition and reportedly take it away from soldiers not in combat. (Associated Press)
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Anti-government protesters shout slogans during a demonstration to demand the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday. Al Qaeda gunmen are suspected in the killing of four Republican Guard soldiers on Sunday in the mountainous central province of Marib, security officials said. (Associated Press)
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Frank Buckles, who was the last-known surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, shakes hands with Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV on Capitol Hill on Dec. 3, 2009. Mr. Buckles was 108 years old at the time. (Associated Press)
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Libyan rebels who are part of the forces against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi fire a rocket launcher Sunday as they battle Gadhafi's troops outside the town of Bin Jawwad in eastern Libya. Libyan helicopter gunships fired on a rebel force advancing west toward the capital along the Mediterranean coastline Sunday and forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi fought intense ground battles with the rival fighters. (Associated Press)
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Egyptian protesters check the content of an office after breaking into the State Security headquarters in Cairo's northern suburb of Nasr City on Saturday, March 5, 2011. Three weeks after President Hosni Mubarak's ouster, Egyptians are turning their anger toward his internal security apparatus, storming the agency's main headquarters and other offices and seizing computer hard drives and documents to keep them from being destroyed to hide evidence of human rights abuses. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ali)
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Two elderly anti-government protesters dance during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, March 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Female supporters of a left-wing political party hold placards carrying pictures of Afghans killed or wounded in recent air strikes during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, March 6, 2011. Hundreds of people marched through the streets of central Kabul to protest U.S. military operations and demand the withdrawal of foreign troops. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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A Chinese policeman stands on duty near the Xidan shopping district, one of two sites designated in an Internet call for protest, in Beijing on Sunday, March 6, 2011. The Chinese capital is increasing its control on foreign journalists amid calls on the Internet for anti-government protests styled on those rocking the Middle East and North Africa. (AP Photo)
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Pro-Gadhafi soldiers and supporters waving flags and firing their guns in the air pour into Green Square in Tripoli, Libya, on Sunday, March 6, 2011, to celebrate claims of overnight military successes. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Libyan rebels who are part of the forces against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi hold a pre-Gadhafi flag as they celebrate after fighting against troops loyal to Gadhafi and capturing the oil town of Ras Lanuf, eastern Libya, Saturday, March 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
