US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the country's Defense Department has deployed twelve more troops to Tripoli to help with the reopening of the American embassy in the Libyan capital.
Speaking during a Pentagon briefing on Tuesday, Panetta claimed the recent surge has been enabled with the aim of assessing the damage done to the embassy, the Associated Press reported.
The embassy came under attack in the crossfire between the Libyan revolutionary forces and loyalists of the country's fugitive former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
The US has already dispatched four military personnel members to Libya.
The recent deployment contradicts the US President Barack Obama's policy of 'no-boots-on-the-ground' in Libya, which he declared at the beginning of the US-led military alliance of NATO's military operations in late March.
The alliance has already carried out thousands of airstrikes on the country with the self-avowed aim of cornering Gaddafi. The offensives have killed many Libyan civilians and revolutionaries.
