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More Libyan Officials Resign, Arab League Suspends Libya from Its Sessions

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After a week of protests and bloody clashes in Libya's eastern cities, Gadhafi and his regime started facing a string of consecutive reactions on Tuesday.

The Gadhafi security forces have unleashed the bloodiest crackdown of any Arab country against the wave of protests sweeping the region, which toppled leaders of Egypt and Tunisia.
In a televised speech of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi on Tuesday, in which he said he had no intention of stepping down and that "any use of force against the authority of the state will be sentenced to death." He also threatened to step up the crackdown against pro-democracy protesters, saying, "We have not used our power yet."

The brutality of the crackdown has led many top Libyan officials to quit. Libyan Interior Minister Abdel Fatah Yunes resigned as protests against embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi continue, despite the government's violent crackdown.

"I announce my resignation from all my duties in response to the revolution of February 17," AFP quoted Yunes as saying on Tuesday. Yunes also called on the army to join the people's revolution.

Also, the crews of two Libyan warships have mutinied and are refusing to obey Muammar Gaddafi's orders to attack the eastern port city of Benghazi. This development comes as more reports are coming in about Libyan troops defecting to the side of the people seeking to overthrow Gaddafi, the longest serving ruler in the Arab world.

In addition, the Libyan deputy ambassador to the UN, Ibrahim Dabbashi, has strongly criticized the crackdown, saying he will not support a government that kills its own people, and has asked Gaddafi to resign.

Earlier, Libya's representative to the League Abdel-Moneim Al Honi resigned from his post on Sunday in protest against the crackdowns, which have reportedly left hundreds of people dead.
Also earlier, two Libyan air force pilots defected to Malta in their aircraft after refusing to carry out the regime's orders to bomb civilians.

Moreover, the Arab League on Tuesday suspended Libya from its sessions in light of a violent crackdown on anti-government protests, Al Jazeera reported.
The decision came at an emergency meeting held by the Arab League in Cairo to discuss the situation in Libya.

Meanwhile at least three Muslim countries joined a call for the UN's premier human rights body to hold an urgent meeting on the situation in Libya.
At least 1,000 people were killed in Tripoli on Monday by airstrikes conducted by the Libyan military in a desperate move meant to suppress the popular uprising, while the airstrikes continued to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday morning.