Libya Needs Aid, Rebels Say, as Qaddafi Calls for Cleansing
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Forces loyal to Muammar Qaddafi battled rebels in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, as the opposition National Transitional Council said the North African nation’s humanitarian aid needs are “urgent.”
Security is “a top priority, but we cannot achieve such a goal without being able financially and economically to establish our power and the NTC rule,” the council’s prime minister, Mahmoud Jibril, told reporters today in Istanbul.