On the recordApril 4, 2011
Before any coalition planes were in the sky over Libya, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control had frozen $32 billion in Libyan assets.
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Durbin highlights the financial actions taken against Gaddafi before military intervention.
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