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Libya was not an imminent threat to the United States when the president ordered the American military to participate in airstrikes against Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said on Sunday.

"No, no. It was not," Gates said on ABC's "This Week." "It was not a vital national interest to the United States, but it was an interest and it was an interest for all of the reasons Secretary Clinton talked about. The engagement of the Arabs, the engagement of the Europeans, the general humanitarian question that was at stake."

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