SOON after mass protests against Colonel Muammar Qaddafi took off, he sought to make sure he would either keep control of the country's oil or prevent the rebels from having it.

反对上校穆阿迈尔·卡扎菲的大规模抗议活动刚刚结束不久，卡扎菲就在积极谋划争夺该国石油的控制权，或者防止它们落入反对派手中。

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Rebels sought to break the mold, to do something that was exclusively "theirs," to be weird by way of self-expression.

反叛就是要破除已有的模式，做自己喜爱的事情，自我表述，神秘不可捉摸。

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But the package falls short of the heavy weapons and high-tech equipment sought by the rebels.

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And the UNP, during a ceasefire it brokered from 2002-06, sought an agreement with the rebels that would have given substantial autonomy to the mostly Tamil north and east.

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Tuareg rebels, who'd sought independence for decades, took advantage of the power vacuum and seized swaths of land.

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