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2011 Libyan Uprising Update:

• Live Blogs: BBC; Guardian; CNN; Al Jazeera.

• Gaddafi forces shell Benghazi, civilian casualties mount; rebels accidentally shoot down their only jet (additional photos; see video footage below).

• International military action begins as French warplanes take to the skies above Benghazi to enforce UNSC-approved no-fly zone; French Defense Official: French jets fire on Libyan military vehicles (AJE report: 4 tanks destroyed); Canadians sending fighter-bombers, instituting naval blockade.

• Obama: Libyans must be protected, “our coalition is prepared to act with urgency”; Clinton: Libyan gov’t “has lost all legitimacy.”

• Much-lauded Libyan Citizen journalist Mohammed “Mo” Al-Nabbous, operator of Alhurra TV livestream, reportedly killed in firefight.

[photo: afp via cnn.]

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