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Riot police detain a protester during clashes in Athens on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. Scores of youths hurled rocks and petrol bombs at riot police after clashes broke out during a mass rally taking place as part of a general strike. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

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A Libyan popular defence committee, holds his AK-47 as he flashes V sign in front an anti-aircraft missile at an abandoned Libyan military base near Tobruk, Libya, on Wednesday, Feb.23, 2011. Heavy gunfire broke out in Tripoli as forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi tightened their grip on the Libyan capital while anti-government protesters claimed control of many cities elsewhere and top government officials and diplomats turn against the longtime leader. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Libyan protesters raise up the old Libyan flag during a demonstration against Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, in Tobruk, Libya, on Wednesday Feb. 23, 2011. Heavy gunfire broke out in Tripoli as forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi tightened their grip on the Libyan capital while anti-government protesters claimed control of many cities elsewhere and top government officials and diplomats turn against the longtime leader. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Libyan protetsers protest against Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, in Tobruk, Libya, on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. Heavy gunfire broke out in Tripoli as forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi tightened their grip on the Libyan capital while anti-government protesters claimed control of many cities elsewhere and top government officials and diplomats turn against the longtime leader.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Residents gather near the courthouse, as a flag of Libya's monarchy prior to Moammar Gadhafi's reign flies above, in Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. Militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi clamped down in Tripoli Wednesday, but cracks in his regime spread elsewhere across the nation, as the protest-fueled rebellion controlling much of eastern Libya claimed new gains closer to the capital. (AP Photo/Alaguri)

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Libyan protesters stand on the rooftop of a burned police station, during a demonstration against their Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, in Tobruk, Libya, Wednesday Feb. 23, 2011. Heavy gunfire broke out in Tripoli as forces loyal to Gadhafi tightened their grip on the Libyan capital while anti-government protesters claimed control of many cities elsewhere and top government officials and diplomats turn against the longtime leader. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Security forces who have joined the uprising carry the flag of Libya's monarchy, as they drive through Benghazi, Libya Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Alaguri)

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An effigy representing Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, marked with a Star of David on its forehead, hangs from a flagpole in Benghazi, Libya Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. Militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi clamped down in Tripoli Wednesday, but cracks in his regime spread elsewhere across the nation, as the protest-fueled rebellion controlling much of eastern Libya claimed new gains closer to the capital. (AP Photo/Alaguri)

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Libyan army soldiers and other protesters stand over an army van shouting slogans against Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi during a demonstration, in Tobruk, Libya, on Wednesday Feb. 23, 2011. Heavy gunfire broke out in Tripoli as forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi tightened their grip on the Libyan capital while anti-government protesters claimed control of many cities elsewhere and top government officials and diplomats turn against the longtime leader.The writting in Arabic read "Libya, youth revolution "(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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A Libyan protester holds up a sign against Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi during a demonstration, in Tobruk, Libya, Wednesday Feb. 23, 2011. Heavy gunfire broke out in Tripoli as forces loyal to Gadhafi tightened their grip on the Libyan capital while anti-government protesters claimed control of many cities elsewhere and top government officials and diplomats turn against the longtime leader. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a joint press conference with Qatari Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr al-Thani, in Doha, Wednesday Feb. 23, 2011. During a question and answer session with students at Qatar University, Cameron said there should be "consequences" for the Libyan regime if it continued to use "appalling levels of violence" against its own people, and that he would like to see a United Nations Security Council resolution to send "a very clear warning" to Col. Gadhafi and the Libyan armed forces that what they were doing was "wrong and against the law".(AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

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A Libyan popular defence committee member, holds his AK-47 as he flashes V sign in front an anti-aircraft missile at an abandoned Libyan military base near Tobruk, Libya, on Wednesday, Feb.23, 2011. Heavy gunfire broke out in Tripoli as forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi tightened their grip on the Libyan capital while anti-government protesters claimed control of many cities elsewhere and top government officials and diplomats turn against the longtime leader. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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The World Trade Center terror attacks in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. (Associated Press)

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A Molotov cocktail thrown by protesters burns in front of the Greek parliament on Syntagma Square in central Athens on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. Scores of youths hurled rocks and gasoline bombs at riot police after clashes broke out during a mass rally taking place as part of a general strike. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Riot police officers control pro-government demonstrators, some holding portraits of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in Algiers, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Sidali Djarboub)

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Residents stand on a tank holding a pre-Gadhafi era national flag inside a security forces compound in Benghazi, Libya, on Monday, Feb. 21, 2011. Libyan protesters celebrated in the streets of Benghazi on Monday, claiming control of the country's second largest city after bloody fighting, and anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli's main square for the first time. (AP Photo/Alaguri)

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Residents are seen walking past a burned-out vehicle in Benghazi, Libya, on Monday, Feb. 21, 2011. Libyan protesters celebrated in the streets of Benghazi on Monday, claiming control of the country's second largest city after bloody fighting, and anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli's main square for the first time. (AP Photo/Alaguri)

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Fire trucks attend to the scene around a security forces compound, some buildings of which were burned including a guard post, center, in Benghazi, Libya on Monday, Feb. 21, 2011. Libyan protesters celebrated in the streets of Benghazi on Monday, claiming control of the country's second largest city after bloody fighting, and anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli's main square for the first time. (AP Photo/Alaguri)

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Residents are seen outside an unidentified burned building in Benghazi, Libya, on Monday, Feb. 21, 2011. Libyan protesters celebrated in the streets of Benghazi on Monday, claiming control of the country's second largest city after bloody fighting, and anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli's main square for the first time. (AP Photo/Alaguri)

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An army soldier and anti-regime residents pose for photos in front of a tank in the early hours of Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, in Benghazi, Libya. The bodies of protesters shot to death by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi were left on the streets of a restive district in the Libyan capital Tuesday, an opposition activist and a resident said, while the longtime leader defiantly went on state TV to show he was still in charge, though the eruption of turmoil in the capital after a week of protests and bloody clashes in Libya's eastern cities has sharply escalated the challenge to Col. Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Alaguri)