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Susan Rice
As Muammar Gaddafi's troops closed in on the rebel stronghold of Benghazi on March 15, President Barack Obama put the fate of the city's 1 million residents in the hands of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice. At a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) that afternoon, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, leery of another war in the Middle East, told Obama a U.N.-proposed no-fly zone would not stop Gaddafi from taking the town.
Rice, participating via video teleconference from New York City, said she could get a tougher resolution allowing broader intervention including the ability to attack armor and ground troops that would do the trick.
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice made the case for humanitarian action in Libya
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