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NATO allies are looking into funding or providing "organizational aide" to the Libyan rebels, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday.

"The opposition needs a lot of assistance, on the organizational side, on the humanitarian side, and on the military side," she said after a meeting in Berlin with NATO foreign ministers, according to a report from Reuters.

Clinton added that the U.S. and its NATO allies have been trying to figure out ways to provide economic aid to Libyan rebels.

"There have been a number of discussions about how to best provide that assistance," Clinton said. "We're also searching for ways to provide funding to the opposition."

Her comments come the same day as President Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas! Sarkozy published an op-ed article in The International Herald Tribune, France's Le Figaro, and the Times of London saying that the three NATO allies "have been unified from the start in responding to the crisis in Libya" and stressing that the NATO effort to protect civilians from dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi would continue.

For about a month, the U.S. has been involved in enforcing a United Nations Security Council no-fly zone resolution in Libya to protect civilians. American officials have said that while the U.S. would like to see Gadhafi removed from power, the Libyan people would have to do it.

“It is impossible to imagine a future for Libya with Gadhafi in power,” the leaders wrote in the op-ed.