US secretary of state Hillary Clinton announces the provision of $25m of non-lethal items such as vehicles, radios and medicines to opposition forces in eastern Libya Link to this video The US plans to send $25m worth of non-lethal equipment to the rebel opposition in eastern Libya, in a move likely to further entangle the west in the two-month-old civil war.
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