US warships, aircraft near Libya, $30b in assets frozen

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By REUTERS 
03/01/2011 02:32

In the hardest-hitting US denunciation yet of Libya's leader, US ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice says Gaddafi is "disconnected from reality," is "slaughtering his own people" and is unfit to lead.

  The United States moved warships and aircraft closer to Libya on Monday and froze $30 billion in assets, ramping up pressure on what a top US envoy called a "delusional" Muammar Gaddafi to relinquish power.

In the hardest-hitting US denunciation yet of Libya's leader, US ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said Gaddafi is "disconnected from reality," is "slaughtering his own people" and is unfit to lead. 

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