He said it was a "unique situation" but they were now dealing with the NTC "as if they were the state of Libya" adding: "It's not a fundamental change in our approach".
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Finally, I hope the Congress will recognize that the threat of chemical agents coming into the hands of state sponsors of terrorism like Libya is a sufficient menace as to warrant physical destruction of the site, if the preceding techniques prove ineffective.
In a marked shift from Colonel Qaddafi's past championing of state socialism, Libya has also taken to encouraging foreign investment in other industries, including agriculture and tourism.
It is now hard to see African heads of state rushing back to Libya.
That same year, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Libya.
Syria is on the US State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, along with North Korea, Sudan, Cuba, Iran and Libya, but is the only one of these countries to have full diplomatic relations with Washington.
Fast forward to 2008, when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice traveled to Libya to meet with Gadhafi to offer American support.
The Libyan fund would have transferred the fee to an outside adviser called Palladyne International Asset Management BV, which was managed at the time by the son-in-law of the head of Libya's state-owned oil company.
The debate followed interviews given Monday by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, where she defended the White House's actions in Libya and said the State Department was in charge of security at the consulate in Benghazi.
Any action to prejudice the interests of the American oil companies, said a State Department spokesman, would make it difficult for Libya to develop the kind of relations with America that it claims to want.
We were sitting around talking about Libya, and we were reading and became aware of reports that the State Department refused extra security for our embassy in Benghazi, Libya, prior to the attacks that killed four Americans.
Working with our coalition partners in the Contact Group which was stood up in London yesterday with the Secretary of State, broad number of partners involved in that effort looking at the political future of Libya and working with the opposition.
What is going on in Libya is not a permanent state of affairs.
Stevens frequently spoke of an infectious enthusiasm for the country that made him "the only person, in the eyes of the State Department, " for the Libya post, Labott said.
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Like the sorely oppressed populations of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, North Korea and the Sudan, they are victims of state-sponsored terror every bit as much as we -- if not more so.
Libya remains on the State Department list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.
Mr Romney said Mr Biden's statement in the recent vice-presidential debate that the administration was not told about requests for extra security in Libya contradicted the sworn testimony of state department officials.
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Gadhafi's son Saif al-Islam visited Washington, and his suave and murderous intelligence chief Musa Kusa (Michigan State University class of '78, and more recently Libya's foreign minister) was allowed back into the U.S. All sanctions ended.
In July 2004, Ghassan Elashi, a founding Board member of CAIR's Texas chapter, was convicted along with his four brothers of having illegally shipped computers from their Dallas-area business, InfoCom Corporation, to Libya and Syria, two designated state sponsors of terrorism.
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Britain and France say they want to even up the military balance of power to open a space for a political solution that does not involve the Assads, but avoids a collapse of the state in the way that spread chaos in Libya and Iraq.
Counterterrorist leaders are correct to be wary of certain protest groups in the United States, since many of them are led or funded by individuals and entities loyal to state-sponsors of terrorism (North Korea, Cuba and Libya), and to designated terrorist organizations including Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic Jihad.
Even in peacetime, Gadhafi's Libya had the Orwellian trappings of a police state governed by a culture of fear.
Republican Kenneth Blackwell, a former Ohio state official, said she might be haunted by the State Department's handling of the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, last year that killed four Americans.
The fact is, our intelligence agencies cannot certify confidently that they would detect a militarily significant violation in a secretive state like Iraq, Libya, the People's Republic of China or North Korea.
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It then forces them back to Libya, an undemocratic state whose leader scoffs at notions of human rights.
"He risked his life to stop a tyrant, then gave his life trying to help build a better Libya, " U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday.
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The Accountability Review Board reported in December that the State Department had failed to provide for the security of the Benghazi, Libya, posts despite growing militancy in the area.
With enough money to bankroll anything from the Shard skyscraper in London to rebel fighters in Libya, fans of any club approached by Qatari state-backed buyers can be quietly confident.
While at the Department of State, Ms. Harrington also launched similar efforts in Iraq and Libya.
The American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, became the most senior American to visit Libya since Muammar Qaddafi took over the country in 1969.
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