Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Tripoli Tuesday to meet with Libya’s Transitional National Council President Mustafa Abdel-Jalil and pledge additional US support as Libyans form a new government. She is the most senior US official to visit the war-torn country since NATO’s Operation Odyssey Dawn/Unified Protector kicked off in March. Alliance officials cautioned that the mission isn’t over yet. “We are very close to the end, but there are still threats to the population,” said NATO deputy spokeswoman Carmen Romero. “And, as long as these threats persist, we will continue with our operation.” (AFPS report by Donna Miles)
The defense intelligence community has tried three times in the past decade to build a “common intelligence picture”—a single data stream providing the information that commanders need to make decisions about the battlefield. The first two attempts failed. But officials say things are different today.