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Democracy Now! 19 Apr 2011 NATO intervention in Libya has been ongoing for four weeks and the country appears locked in a military stalemate. For more on the situation in Libya, Democracy Now! interviews Ibrahim Dabbashi, the Libyan deputy ambassador to the United Nations who defected after Gaddafi's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters and now represents the Transitional National Council of Libya. [quote]Gaddafi] is leaving,[end quote] says Dabbashi, [quote]but how long he will stay in power is the question. ... If the operations of NATO intensify with the coming back of the U.S. I think it will take only some weeks. But if it continues at the same level it is now I think it will take months.[end quote]

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