U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton indicated on Thursday she was planning to meet Libyan opposition leaders during an upcoming visit to the Mideast, amid a global debate as to the ways in which the international community should intervene in what has fast become a full-on civil war in the north-African country.

The planned visit to Egypt and Tunisia would be make Clinton the most senior American official to visit the region after popular revolts toppled U.S.-allied governments in both countries.