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More than 100 community and tribal leaders from Libya have met with members of the opposition National Transitional Council at a conference in Turkey, in a bid to show a united front against Muammar Gaddafi. Most of the tribal leaders who gathered in Istanbul on Saturday and Sunday, were from the powerful Warfalla clan based in Baniwalid, a city in western Libya. The delegates were calling for an end to the violence in Libya and the departure of Libyan leader Gaddafi and his sons. An organiser of the conference told Al Jazeera that Gaddafi and his forces became aware of...