Hillary to Meet Libyan Rebels
The New York Times reports:
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that she would meet with Libyan rebel leaders in the United States and during travels next week to France, Tunisia and Egypt.
Mrs. Clinton did not identify the Libyan rebel leaders she intended to meet.
American officials have reached out to members of the rebels’ provisional council in eastern Libya, directly and through intermediaries, but Mrs. Clinton’s meetings will be the administration’s highest-level contacts with those who hope to replace the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
“We are standing with the Libyan people as they brave bombs and bullets to demand that Qaddafi must go — now,” Mrs. Clinton said in remarks to a House panel.
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