Libya updates via Al-Jazeera

• 11:15am

  Gaddafi said Libyans will fight if a no-fly zone is imposed by Western nations and how imposing one would show their real intention is to seize the country's oil.
  Gaddafi made his remarks during an interview that was conducted on Tuesday night but aired on Wednesday by Turkey's state-run TRT Turk television.
  The Libyan leader was responding to US and British plans for a response to Libya and claimed that such a move would lead Libyans to understand the foreigners' aims to seize oil and take their freedoms away.
  He said if that happens "Libyans will take up arms and fight.''
  
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  10:30am

  Rashid Khalikov has been appointed UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Libyan crisis.
  Khalikov is currently the Director of the Geneva branch of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, but will work closely with the UN Resident Coordinator for Libya and also with the UN Resident Coordinators for Tunisia, Egypt and Niger on humanitarian response along Libya’s border
  For other UN related-highlights on Libya, follow this link http://aje.me/hcoYJM
  
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  10:14am

  President Barack Obama's senior advisers are meeting today to outline possible steps that could be used to pressure Gaddafi to halt the violence against his people and give up power. Obama is facing the sternest test yet of his philosophy of humanitarian intervention, which he has described as an imperative to prevent atrocities against civilians. But Gaddafi's brutal suppression of protests and crackdown on opponents to his 42-year rule may fall short of Obama's criteria for military action. [AP]
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  9:01am

  Libya Watch is closely monitoring the continuous human rights abuses against the people of Libya. These abuses have been well documented and will be presented to the appropriate authorities, including the ICC and the world media in due course.
  The human rights group also confirmed in a press release that Mohammed Allakey who is the assistant secretary general of the Union of Arab Lawyers and the chairman of assembly of Libyan Human Rights of the Gaddafi Foundation has resigned from his post and has joined the revolution,
  
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  5:00am

  Gaddafi speaks in the capital Tripoli, after the opposition National Council gives him 72 hours to step down. He says that the rebels fighting government forces have been brainwashed by al-Qaeda.