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Tonight is my last night in the region. I leave Cairo for my home in Washington tomorrow. And this weekend, as I sit with my morning papers in my comfortable chair and read about events in Libya, they will once again seem very far away. 

But events that are far away are not necessarily forgotten. And it would be impossible for me to forget all that I have seen and heard of the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding here. 

Admittedly, it is very hard to know exactly what is happening throughout Libya right now from a humanitarian perspective. There are just too few observers on the ground in too few places. And having spent just one day in the country myself, I am hardly in a position to provide much evidence.

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