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WASHINGTON - The United States has little faith in UN-backed peace talks in Libya because Middle Eastern countries are defying requests to end their war by proxy in the oil-rich North African nation, senior US officials said.

UN special Libya envoy Bernardino Leon last week called on the main factions to meet this Tuesday to initiate a dialog in a spirit of "objectivity and conciliation," but a time and place have still not been made public.

Despite months of American requests, the US officials said Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, all of which are US allies, continue to encourage local factions to fight instead of compromise.

"What is the objective? What is the plan for success here?" asked a senior American official who declined to be identified. "It seems quite clear that the more foreign countries get involved in Libya, the more unstable the situation becomes."

Egypt and the United Arab Emirates back the internationally recognized government led by Abdullah al-Thinni operating in the east. US officials say Qatar has supported Libya Dawn, which controls the capital Tripoli, but Qatar denies this.

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De Blasio: Eric Holder Promising #39;Full and Thorough Investigation #39; into Garner Death

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gestures as he speaks to members of the community during an interfaith service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the church where The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014, in Atlanta. AP / David Goldman

Last Updated Dec 8, 2014 1:45 PM EST

Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Justice Department's release of its long-awaited revised racial profiling guidance for federal law enforcement on Monday.

In 2003, the Justice Department issued its first racial profiling guidance under former Attorney General John Ashcroft. That guidance banned profiling based on race and ethnicity, but granted exceptions for national security and border protection. Civil rights groups considered the exceptions a kind of permission to discriminate especially against Muslims in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The newly revised guidance will expand the characteristics it protects -- beyond race and ethnicity -- to include bans on profiling on the basis of gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, and general identity.

"We can't afford to profile, to do law enforcement on the basis of stereotypes," Holder said Monday at an event in Northern Virginia.

The guidance applies to federal law enforcement officers and also to state and local officers involved in federal law enforcement tasks. But the new guidance does continue to allow certain exceptions for the Department of Homeland Security.

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The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that there will be exceptions for its work in screening at the borders and in transportation settings. Other exceptions have been carved out for U.S. Border Patrol interdiction activities in the vicinity of the border and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) interdiction activities at ports of entry. Secret Service "protective activities" are also excluded from the new guidelines.

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WASHINGTON Keeping police-community relations on the front burner, Attorney General Eric Holder announced an expanded policy Monday that bars federal agents from profiling based on gender, religion, national origin and gender identity.

Current rules dating from 2003 already bar federal agents from using race by itself to go after suspects. The new policy applies to federal agencies and joint task forces that involve local cops, who normally operate under their own policies.

But there are exemptions for national security and border security, drawing sharp responses from advocates.

Attorney General Eric Holder is trying to have it both ways, criticizing profiling while embracing it at the same time, said Antonio Ginatta of Human Rights Watch. Halfhearted reforms are a sorry legacy.

The revised rules will mean extra work for law enforcement in some cases.

Giving an example, the Justice Department said the feds cannot impose heavy enforcement based on a general assumption of crime in an area where one race is heavily represented.

In another example, a crackdown would be appropriate if law enforcement compiled arrest statistics and wasnt motivated by racial animus.

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