Obama says Gadhafi must leave 'now' (AP)

Saturday, February 26, 2011 3:01 PM By dwi

WASHINGTON – Ratcheting up the pressure, President Barack Obama on Sat said Moammar Gadhafi has forfeited his legitimacy to rule and urged the African cheater to yield power immediately.

It was the prototypal instance Obama has titled for Gadhafi to movement down, reaching after days of bloodshed in Libya. Gadhafi has vowed to fight to the end to maintain his four-decade appendage on power in the North African country.

"When a leader's exclusive effectuation of staying in power is to ingest mass hostility against his possess people, he has forfeited the legitimacy to rule and needs to do what is correct for his land by leaving now," the White House said in a statement, summarizing Obama's ring conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Until now, U.S. officials have held back from much a pronouncement, insisting it is for the African grouping to determine who their cheater should be.

Obama commented a period after the brass froze every African assets in the U.S. that belong to Gadhafi, his polity and four of his children. The U.S. also closed its embassy in Libya and suspended the limited defense change between the countries.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham politico declared further sanctions Saturday, revoking visas for grownup African officials and their unmediated kinsfolk members. She said future applications from those blacklisted for movement to the United States would be rejected.

Gadhafi "should go without further bloodshed and violence," politico said in a separate statement.

Obama has been holding a program of discussions with concern leaders most the unrest in Libya. The brass is hoping that the concern speaks with a azygos voice against Gadhafi's ferocious crackdown on protesters, and the president is sending politico to Genf on Sun to coordinate with external policy chiefs from individual countries.

The U.S. tone shifted sharply on Friday after Americans in Libya were evacuated from the land by ferry and a chartered airplane.

Shortly after, Obama subscribed an chief order outlining business penalties fashioned to push Gadhafi's polity into halting the violence.


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