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Pro-Gadhafi Forces In Libya Advance On Rebels

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Following the announcement that Moammar Gadhafi's forces took the Eastern city of Ajdabiya, Gadhafi supporters celebrate on Green Square in Tripoli, Libya on Tuesday. (AP)
Following the announcement that Moammar Gadhafi's forces took the Eastern city of Ajdabiya, Gadhafi supporters celebrate on Green Square in Tripoli, Libya on Tuesday. (AP)

Anti-government rebels in Libya are lashing out at the West for not coming to their aid in their battle to oust longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi. A rebel spokesman says, "People are fed up. They are waiting impatiently for an international move." Pro-Gadhafi forces also are advancing in their efforts take back a stretch of eastern Libya that's been in rebel hands. In the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, we speak to a Libyan man who says his people need help from the West and the BBC's Jon Leyne in the same city.

This segment aired on March 16, 2011.

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