A Libyan volunteer carries ammunition on the outskirts of the eastern town
of Ras Lanouf, Libya, Thursday, March 10, 2011. Government forces drove
hundreds of rebels from a strategic oil port with rockets and tank
shells on Thursday, significantly expanding Moammar Gadhafi's control of
Libya. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

Rebels fire a rocket-propelled grenade at a Libyan air force fighter jet on
March 10, 2011 in Ras Lanuf, Libya. Most rebel forces fled the city as
government forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi attacked them
with heavy shelling and air strikes. (Photo by John Moore/Getty
Images)

Shrapnels fly through the air as a tank shell explodes near Libyan rebel fighters
defending their last position against Moamer Kadhafi's loyalist forces
at the north-central key Libyan oil town of Ras Lanuf on March 10, 2011.
AFP PHOTO / ROBERTO SCHMIDT (Photo credit should read ROBERTO
SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

Libyan rebel fighters try to defend a gate of the north-central key Libyan oil
town of Ras Lanuf as Moamer Kadhafi's loyalist forces approach their
positions on March 10, 2011, where at least four people were killed and
35 wounded as rebels retreated under continous government rocket and
sniper fire. AFP PHOTO / ROBERTO SCHMIDT (Photo credit should read
ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

Libyan volunteers cry outside a hospital in the eastern town of Brega, Libya,
Thursday, March 10, 2011. Government forces drove hundreds of rebels
from a strategic oil port with a withering rain of rockets and tank
shells on Thursday, significantly expanding Moammar Gadhafi's control of
Libya as Western nations struggled to find a way to stop him. (AP
Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

Libyan men look at the dead bodies of two rebel fighters brought out from the
battle for the eastern key Libyan oil town of Ras Lanuf March 10, 2011
where troops stormed into as tanks outflanked rebels holding the key oil
town, forcing them to retreat east under a hail of rocket fire.
(MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)

Libyan rebel fighters wait for news of wounded comrades at the morgue of
Brega's hospital where bodies have been brought out from the battle of
Ras Lanuf on March 10, 2011 where troops stormed into as tanks
outflanked rebels holding the key oil town, forcing them to retreat east
under a hail of rocket fire. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)

Dust and smoke rise from an explosion in Sidra, 10 kilometres (six miles)
west of Ras Lanuf, on March 10, 2011, as fighting in eastern Libya has
killed at least 400 people and wounded 2,000 since February 17, medics
there said. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)

A Libyan youth uses his mobile phone to snap a photo af an unexploded
ordnance dropped during an air raid on an emptied apartment block in an
alley of the oil rich Llibyan town of Ras Lanuf, March 09, 2011. Once
home to a population of tens of thousands people this now ghost city
became the front line town of an increasingly violent armed struggle
between insurgents and loyalist armed forces of Libya. (MARCO
LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)

A woman looks at photos of men killed under the regime of Col. Moammar
Gadhafi in Benghazi, Libya, on March 10, 2011. On Thursday, opposition
fighters fled from Ras Lanuf under heavy rocket attacks and airstrikes
by forces loyal to Gadhafi. (Ed Ou/The New York Times)

A Libyan rebel scans the frontline as a facility burns on the frontline on
March 9, 2011 near Ras Lanuf, Libya. The rebels pushed back government
troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi towards Ben Jawat. (Photo
by John Moore/Getty Images)

Libyans with the opposition take cover as planes fly overhead and mortar
strikes land nearby as opposition fighters face off in intense battles
with forces loyal to Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi in Ras Lanuf,
Libya, March 9, 2011. Forces loyal to Gadhafi repulsed the rebel push to
the west on Wednesday and then counterattacked with airstrikes and
increasingly accurate artillery fire on the strategic refinery town of
Ras Lanuf, which the rebels have held for several days. (Lynsey
Addario/The New York Times)

Opposition fighters weep at the hospital in Ras Lanuf as wounded are brought in
from the frontline west of Ras Lanuf where intense battles with forces
loyal to Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi were raging in Libya, March
9, 2011. Forces loyal to Gadhafi repulsed the rebel push to the west on
Wednesday and then counterattacked with airstrikes and increasingly
accurate artillery fire on the strategic refinery town of Ras Lanuf,
which the rebels have held for several days. (Lynsey Addario/The New
York Times)

Opposition fighters react as the body of one of four comrades is brought out of
the hospital dead in Ras Lanuf, Libya, March 9, 2011. Forces loyal to
Gadhafi repulsed the rebel push to the west on Wednesday and then
counterattacked with airstrikes and increasingly accurate artillery fire
on the strategic refinery town of Ras Lanuf, which the rebels have held
for several days. (Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

Libyan rebels fire rockets at government troops on the frontline on March 9,
2011 near Ras Lanuf, Libya. The rebels pushed back government troops
loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi westward towards Ben Jawat.
(Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Libyan rebels fire rockets at government troops on the frontline on March 9,
2011 near Ras Lanuf, Libya. The rebels pushed back government troops
loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi towards Ben Jawat. (Photo by John
Moore/Getty Images)

Smoke burns on the horizon after a day of heavy fighting and shelling between
opposition fighters and forces loyal to Libyan leader Col. Moammar
Gadhafi in Ras Lanuf, Libya, March 9, 2011. Forces loyal to Gadhafi
repulsed the rebel push to the west on Wednesday and then
counterattacked with airstrikes and increasingly accurate artillery fire
on the strategic refinery town of Ras Lanuf, which the rebels have held
for several days. (Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

A Libyan rebel fires a rocket propelled grenade at government troops on
the frontline on March 9, 2011 near Ras Lanuf, Libya. The rebels pushed
back government troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi towards
Ben Jawat. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Libyan rebels take cover during a battle with government troops as a facility
burns on the frontline on March 9, 2011 near Ras Lanuf, Libya. The
rebels pushed back government troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi towards Ben Jawat. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

A Libyan rebel fires on a government jet as a facility burns on the
frontline on March 9, 2011 near Ras Lanuf, Libya. The rebels pushed back
government troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi towards Ben
Jawat. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

A Libyan rebel cries out for a comrade injured while fighting government
troops on the frontline on March 9, 2011 in Ras Lanuf, Libya. The rebels
battled government troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi,
pushing them back towards Ben Jawat. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

A Libyan rebel weeps for a comrade injured while fighting government
troops on the frontline on March 9, 2011 in Ras Lanuf, Libya. The rebels
battled government troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi,
pushing them back towards Ben Jawat. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

A relative of an opposition fighter wounded in combat cries outside a room
at Ajdabiya Hospital in Ajdabiya, Libya, on March 9, 2011. The hospital
has been receiving opposition fighters from the front lines in towns
miles away, and the medical volunteers joining the staff have come from
around the region and even as far as the U.S. (Ed Ou/The New York Times)

An opposition fighter visits a wounded comrade at Ajdabiya Hospital in
Ajdabiya, Libya, on March 9, 2011. The hospital has been receiving
opposition fighters from the front lines in towns miles away, and the
medical volunteers joining the staff have come from around the region
and even as far as the U.S. (Ed Ou/The New York Times)

Opposition fighter stand on poles to get a better view of continuous shelling
during a day of heavy fighting with forces loyal to Libyan leader Col.
Moammar Gadhafi were raging in Ras Lanuf, Libya, March 9, 2011. Forces
loyal to Gadhafi repulsed the rebel push to the west on Wednesday and
then counterattacked with airstrikes and increasingly accurate artillery
fire on the strategic refinery town of Ras Lanuf, which the rebels have
held for several days. (Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

Opposition fighters during a battle to push west of the town of Ras Lanuf, Libya,
March 9, 2011. Forces loyal to the Libyan leader, Col. Moammar Gadhafi,
repulsed a rebel push to the west on Wednesday and then counterattacked
with airstrikes and increasingly accurate artillery fire on the
strategic refinery town of Ras Lanuf, which the rebels have held for
several days. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

An injured fighter is loaded into a vehicle at the front as opposition
fighters face off in intense battles with forces loyal to Libyan leader
Col. Moammar Gadhafi in Libya, March 9, 2011. Forces loyal to Gadhafi
repulsed the rebel push to the west on Wednesday and then
counterattacked with airstrikes and increasingly accurate artillery fire
on the strategic refinery town of Ras Lanuf, which the rebels have held
for several days. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

Libyan rebels take positions while fighting government troops as a facility
burns on the frontline on March 9, 2011 near Ras Lanuf, Libya. The
rebels pushed back government troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi towards Ben Jawat. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

An opposition fighter moves into position to fire a rocket propelled
grenade at an incoming jet suspected of being loyal to Libyan leader
Col. Moammar Gadhafi near the town of Ras Lanuf, Libya, March 9, 2011.
Forces loyal to Gadhafi repulsed a rebel push to the west on Wednesday
and then counterattacked with airstrikes and increasingly accurate
artillery fire on the strategic refinery town of Ras Lanuf, which the
rebels have held for several days. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

The body of a Libyan rebel fighter, who was killed during clashes with
forces loyal to leader Moamer Kadhafi, lies at a clinic in the oil town
of Ras Lanuf on March 9, 2011 where many anti-regime fighters retreated
after artillery and air strikes from government troops. (MARCO
LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)

A Libyan rebel fighter lies on the ground as shells from forces loyal to
leader Moamer Kadhafi fall nearby during clashes few kilometers outside
the town of Ras Lanuf on March 9, 2011 as heavy black smoke rises from
an oil pipe that was hit in a blast. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

A Libyan rebel fighter struggles to reload his machine-gun during a
clashes with forces loyal to leader Moamer Kadhafi, just few kilometers
outside the oil town of Ras Lanuf on March 9, 2011. (ROBERTO
SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

A Libyan rebel fighter run for cover as shells explode nearby during a
battle with forces loyal to leader Moamer Kadhafi, just few kilometers
outside the oil town of Ras Lanuf on March 9, 2011. (ROBERTO
SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

Mourners react next to the coffin during the funeral for a rebel fighter who was
killed fighting forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi near the
town of Bin Jawwad, during his funeral in Benghazi, eastern Libya,
Wednesday, March 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Mourners react during the funeral for a rebel fighter who was killed fighting
forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi near the town of Bin
Jawwad, during his funeral in Benghazi, eastern Libya, Wednesday, March
9, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

A rebel fighter carries of load of rocket propelled grenades while
advancing on the frontline on March 9, 2011 near Ras Lanuf, Libya. The
rebels pushed back government forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi towards Ben Jawat. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

A mourner is comforted during the funeral for a rebel fighter who was
killed fighting forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi near the
town of Bin Jawwad, during his funeral in Benghazi, eastern Libya,
Wednesday, March 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Thousands of protesters wave their old national flag during a an anti-regime
rally in the eastern city of Benghazi on March 9, 2011 as rebel fighters
broken by government shelling and air strikes fled back to the oil town
of Ras Lanuf. (GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images)

Anti-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi rebel sits at ammunitions boxes, in Ras Lanouf
town, eastern Libya, on Wednesday March 9, 2011. A high-ranking member
of the Libyan military flew to Cairo on Wednesday with a message for
Egyptian army officials from Moammar Gadhafi, whose troops pounded
opposition forces with artillery barrages and gunfire in at least two
major cities. Gadhafi appeared to be keeping up the momentum he has
seized in recent days in his fight against rebels trying to move on the
capital, Tripoli, from territory they hold in eastern Libya. (AP
Photo/Hussein Malla)

Anti-Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi rebel, sit next to a mulitiple rockets launcher
as flames rises from a fuel storage facility that attacked during a
fighting against pro-Moammar Gadhafi fighters, in Sidr town, eastern
Libya, on Wednesday March 9, 2011. A high-ranking member of the Libyan
military flew to Cairo on Wednesday with a message for Egyptian army
officials from Moammar Gadhafi, whose troops pounded opposition forces
with artillery barrages and gunfire in at least two major cities.
Gadhafi appeared to be keeping up the momentum he has seized in recent
days in his fight against rebels trying to move on the capital, Tripoli,
from territory they hold in eastern Libya. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A Libyan rebel fighter arms his ammunition in front of an ammunition
storage wear house in the eastern town of Brega, Libya Wednesday, March
9, 2011. Moammar Gadhafi says Libyans will fight if a no-fly zone is
imposed by Western nations, saying that would show their real intention
is to seize the country's oil. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Libyan nurses carry an injured anti-Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi rebel, who
was wounded during the fighting against pro-Gadhafi fighters, at a
hospital in the town of Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya, Wednesday, March 9,
2011. Libyan warplanes launched at least three new airstrikes Tuesday
near rebel positions in the oil port of Ras Lanouf, keeping up a
counteroffensive to prevent the opposition from advancing toward leader
Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold in the capital Tripoli. (AP Photo/Hussein
Malla)

Libyan volunteers sit at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the eastern town of
Ras Lanouf, Libya, Wednesday, March 9, 2011. A high-ranking member of
the Libyan military flew to Cairo on Wednesday with a message for
Egyptian army officials from Moammar Gadhafi, whose troops pounded
opposition forces with artillery barrages and gunfire in at least two
major cities. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

Libyan volunteers cheer as smoke rises from the oil port of Sidr in the
background, in the eastern town of Ras Lanouf, Libya, Wednesday, March
9, 2011. A high-ranking member of the Libyan military flew to Cairo on
Wednesday with a message for Egyptian army officials from Moammar
Gadhafi, whose troops pounded opposition forces with artillery barrages
and gunfire in at least two major cities. (AP Photo/Tara
Todras-Whitehill)

Libyan volunteers cheer as smoke rises from the oil port of Sirdra in the
background, in the eastern town of Ras Lanouf, Libya, Wednesday, March
9, 2011. A high-ranking member of the Libyan military flew to Cairo on
Wednesday with a message for Egyptian army officials from Moammar
Gadhafi, whose troops pounded opposition forces with artillery barrages
and gunfire in at least two major cities. (AP Photo/Tara
Todras-Whitehill)

A Libyan rebel fighter, who was wounded during clashes with forces loyal
to leader Moamer Kadhafi, is brought to a clinic in the oil town of Ras
Lanuf on March 9, 2011 where many anti-regime fighters retreated after
artillery and air strikes from government troops. (MARCO
LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)

Libyan rebel fighters carry a wounded comrade during clashes with forces loyal
to leader Moamer Kadhafi few kilometers outside the town of Ras Lanuf
on March 9, 2011 as heavy black smoke rises from an oil pipe that was
hit in a blast. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

A Libyan MIG fighter jet flies over the oil town of Ras Lanuf on March 9,
2011 before bombing positions of rebel fighters. (MARCO
LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)

Libyan rebel fighters run for cover as shells explode nearby during a battle
with forces loyal to leader Moamer Kadhafi, just few kilometers outside
the oil town of Ras Lanuf on March 9, 2011. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty
Images)

Libyan rebel fighters react during clashes with forces loyal to leader Moamer
Kadhafi, just few kilometers outside the oil town of Ras Lanuf on March
9, 2011. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

A Libyan rebel fighter scarmbles from a ditch as he carries a rocket
propelled grenade (RPG) to reach the battle scene with forces loyal to
leader Moamer Kadhafi, just few kilometers outside the oil town of Ras
Lanuf on March 9, 2011. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

A natural gas facility burns after being hit during heavy fighting between
opposition fighters and forces loyal to Libyan leader Col. Moammar
Gadhafi in Ras Lanuf, Libya, March 9, 2011. Forces loyal to Gadhafi
repulsed the rebel push to the west on Wednesday and then
counterattacked with airstrikes and increasingly accurate artillery fire
on the strategic refinery town of Ras Lanuf, which the rebels have held
for several days. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

A Libyan rebel is evacuated from the frontline after being wounded in
fighting with government troops on March 10, 2011 in Ras Lanuf, Libya.
Most rebel forces fled the Ras Lanuf as government forces loyal to
Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi attacked them with heavy shelling and
airstrikes. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

An opposition fighter prays in the middle of a road during the rebels push
west of Ras Lanuf, Libya, March 9, 2011. Forces loyal to Libyan leader
Col. Moammar Gadhafi repulsed the rebel push to the west on Wednesday
and then counterattacked with airstrikes and increasingly accurate
artillery fire on the strategic refinery town of Ras Lanuf, which the
rebels have held for several days. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)