U.S. and Egypt Training Libyan Rebel Forces
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism Reports from Al Jazeera claim Libyan rebels are receiving training from United States and Egyptian special forces. The U.S. intervention into what is a Libyan civil war will likely come to a bad ending. Sticking your national nose into other countries affairs usually do. That aside, with the known links some of the rebel fighters have to al Qaeda, and the fact the rebel leader spent time in Afghanistan working against coalition forces there, the question remains, do we know who we are arming and training. Al Jazeera US and Egyptian special forces have reportedly been providing covert training to rebel fighters in the battle for Libya, Al Jazeera has been told. An unnamed rebel source related how he had undergone training in military techniques at a "secret facility" in eastern Libya. He told our correspondent Laurence Lee, reporting from the rebel-stronghold of Benghazi, that he ...