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Tripoli, Libya

Qaddafi son killed: Mobs torched several Western embassies in Tripoli this week after a NATO airstrike killed Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi’s youngest son, Saif al-Arab, and three of Saif’s children. The embassy attacks prompted Britain to expel the Libyan ambassador, and Qaddafi came under increased international pressure to surrender. The International Criminal Court said it had sufficient grounds to charge his forces with crimes against humanity, including murder, torture, and persecution. And his erstwhile ally, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called on him to “immediately step down” because he had brought “blood, tears, oppression, and attacks on his own people.” Qaddafi’s forces nevertheless intensified their attack on the port city of Misurata, shelling the harbor and preventing ships from bringing weapons and aid from the main opposition forces in Benghazi.

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