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    There are roughly 6, 000 Americans in Libya and the US government is trying to get them out. A ferry that was chartered to take hundreds of US citizens from Libya to Malta was being held up for a while yesterday. US officials said everyone onboard was safe. They said the delay was because of the weather. Meanwhile, Libya’s leader, Moammar Gadhafi, is blaming the violence in his country on young people. He says they are taking some sort of pills and have been manipulated by the al Qaeda—the terrorist group. But during his speech earlier this week, President Obama said what is going on in that part of the world has nothing to do with the outside influences.