Pentagon: Libya mission has cost US $550 million so far
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The military intervention in Libya has cost the US Defense Department an extra $550 million so far, mostly for bombs and missiles, officials said Tuesday.
The figure is not a full picture of the price tag for the operation in that it does not include such money as pay for US sailors, airmen and other forces, who would have been deployed somewhere in the world anyway, officials said. But it is the first official figure released on the cost of setting up the no-fly zone in the North African nation and protecting civilians from strongman Muammar Gaddafi as he resists a movement to oust him. (AP)
