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In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 21, 2011, and made available Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, men display victory signs as they ride on a truck scrawled with graffiti in arabic reading "Go, go, go, leave, leave, leave, down with the regime," on their way to volunteer to help clean up streets 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 Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Alaguri)

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A placard showing photos of some of those who have died is seen on top 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 Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Alaguri)

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Anti-government protesters demonstrate in the street in the Libyan capital Tripoli in the early hours Tuesday Feb. 22, 2011, in this image taken from TV. 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. (AP Photo/APTN)

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Residents are seen walking inside 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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Two Libyan jets are parked at the Malta International Airport in Gudja, Malta, Monday evening, Feb. 21, 2011. The air force jets landed in Malta on Monday and their pilots asked for political asylum amid a bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters in Libya, a military source said. (AP Photo/Lino Arrigo Azzopardi)

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Palestinians step on a poster of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi during a march in solidarity with Libya in Gaza City, Tuesday, Feb. 22 , 2011. Col. Gadhafi's 42-year rule is under unprecedented pressure from an uprising that is struggling to oust the authoritarian ruler despite a vicious crackdown.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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A Yemeni anti-government demonstrator reacts after other demonstrators set on fire a vehicle belonging to supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Supporters of the Yemeni government are seen through the smoke of a burning vehicle belonging to them destroyed and set on fire by anti-government demonstrators during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Yemeni anti-government demonstrators display their local currency during a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Yemeni anti-government demonstrators destroy a vehicle belonging to supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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A Yemeni anti-government demonstrator stands on top of a destroyed vehicle belongs to supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Yemeni anti-government demonstrators shout at supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, not pictured, as they gather a top and around a destroyed vehicle belonging to the supporters, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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A Yemeni anti-government demonstrator rides his bike past a burning vehicle belonging to supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Yemeni anti-government demonstrators react during a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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A Yemeni police officer pushes back a government supporters chanting slogans facing anti-government demonstrators, not pictured, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh raise his posters facing anti-government demonstrators, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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A masked Yemeni anti-government demonstrator seen during clashes with supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, not pictured, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. Arabic reads on the mask, " Leave". (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Thousands of Bahraini mourners participate in a funeral march on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, in Malkiya, Bahrain, for Redha Bu Hameed, who died during clashes between army forces and anti-government protesters. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

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Residents gather outside a burned building in Benghazi, Libya, on Monday. Libyan protesters celebrated in the streets of Benghazi, claiming control of the country's second-largest city after bloody fighting. Anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli's main square for the first time. (Associated Press)

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TAKING A TANK: Protesters celebrate on a tank inside a security-forces compound in Benghazi, Libya, on Monday. Demonstrators rallied in the streets of Benghazi as they claimed control of the country's second-largest city. (Associated Press)