U.K. Prime Minister To Gadhafi: 'It Is Over, Give Up'

NPR | By Mark Memmott

Published September 15, 2011 at 7:55 AM EDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron, center, and French President Nicholas Sarkozy, second right, visited with patients at the Tripoli Medical Center today (Sept. 15, 2011).

"It is over. Give up. The mercenaries should go home."

That's the message today from British Prime Minister David Cameron to ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, The Guardian reports.

Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are in Libya today, meeting with leaders of the National Transitional Council. As the BBC says, they are "the most senior Western leaders" to visit Libya since Gadhafi's regime collapsed.

Mark Memmott

Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists – helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.

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