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NATO formally extends Libya campaign for 90 days
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NATO allies agreed Wednesday to extend the mission in Libya for another 90 days, prolonging its until late September. “NATO and partners have just decided to extend our mission for Libya for another 90 days,” Alarabiya.net quotes NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen as saying. “This decision sends a clear message to the Qaddafi regime: We are determined to continue our operation to protect the people of Libya,” he added after the North Atlantic Council, the decision-making body of the alliance. Libyan government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim told a news conference that 10 weeks of NATO-led air strikes sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council to protect civilians had also wounded 4,067.