The European Parliament discussed the turmoil in the North African nation on Tuesday, a day after the US Ambassador to the United Nations said Gadhafi sounded "delusional" and a Libyan woman said protesters will eventually succeed in ousting Gadhafi because "too much blood has been shed."

And in another act of international condemnation of Gadhafi's regime, the Libyan Embassy in Washington will take down the Libyan flag on Tuesday and replace it with one that flew in Libya before Gadhafi took power in 1969, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Government forces have repeatedly clashed with demonstrators over the past two weeks in Libya, fired on crowds and at times shot indiscriminately at people in the streets.

It is unclear how many people have died in fighting between government troops and rebels. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said deaths have topped 1,000, while Libya's ambassador to the United States estimated on Monday that the death toll was about 2,000.