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WASHINGTON — The U.S. on Friday launched a multipronged effort to assist foreign workers who fled the fighting in Libya, sending two Air Force cargo planes to deliver blankets and other supplies in neighboring Tunisia.
Plans were made to fly an unspecified number of refugees from camps along the Libya- Tunisia border today.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that in addition to the military cargo flights to Djerba, Tunisia, the U.S. Agency for International Development chartered two civilian aircraft to help repatriate foreign workers who have fled Libya.
It was not clear Friday how U.S. and other international efforts to fly foreign workers away from the border area would be carried out.
The Associated Press
