LIBYA LAUNCHES HARSHEST CRACKDOWN ON REBELS: “We are not afraid. We won’t turn back.”

UPDATE: Uprising in Libya; Qaddafi Out? Unconfirmed: “Among other unconfirmed reports out of Libya right now, one is that Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has left the country for exile in Venezuela. Another is that Qaddafi’s sons, Muatassem and Saif al-Islam, fought each other, with the former shooting the latter. It’s hard to know much right now, since media coverage out of Libya has gone virtually black.”