U.S. House Libya Vote: Smell Of Victory For Moammar Gadhafi -- ABC News
It had the sound of a victory celebration: Machine guns rat-a-tat-tatting in the air. Crowds of young supporters swathed in Moammar Gadhafi green celebrating, cheering.
"What's the news," I ask one young man with a machine gun slung over his shoulder.
"Gadhafi has won!" he tells me emphatically.
It did not take long for news from the U.S. House of Representatives to make its way here to Green Square in the heart of Tripoli. By a vote of 295-123 the House voted down a measure that would have given President Obama the authority to continue the U.S. military operations in Libya.
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