In a joint op-ed published in the New York Times, U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and British Prime Minister David Cameron defend the progress of the international intervention in Libya and state that " it is impossible to imagine a future for Libya with [Muammar al-] Qaddafi in power." The three leaders promise that NATO operations will continue as long as Qaddafi remains.
The humanitarian crisis continues to deepen in besieged Misrata, with an estimated 1,000 people already killed. A chartered passenger ship entered the city on Thursday with the goal of evacuating migrant workers, but thousands remain.
In Tripoli, Qaddafi's daughter Aisha led a rally of her father's supporters from a compound which was destroyed by U.S. airstrikes 25 years ago. "Now, after 25 years, the same missiles, the same bombs, rain on our children's heads," she said. "We are a people that cannot be defeated,"
Source: Foreign Policy (FP)
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