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U.S. Military Working On Plan To Train Thousands Of Libyans For Counterterrorism Missions
2013-11-18
[Huffpoo] The U.S. military is working on plans to train 5,000 to 7,000 members of the Libyan security forces and also special operations forces who can carry out counter-terrorism missions, a senior U.S. military official said.

Libya's government is struggling to keep order as rival militias and hardline Islamists refuse to disarm two years after Muammar Gaddafi was ousted in a NATO-backed uprising. Tripoli has seen deadly clashes over the past several days.

Admiral William McRaven, who heads the U.S. military's Special Operations Command, declined to go into details about the training plan, saying these were still being negotiated.

"Suffice to say that there is going to be a kind of conventional effort, to train their conventional forces, between 5 and 7,000 conventional forces. And we have a complementary effort on the special operations side to train a certain number of their forces to do counter-terrorism," he told a defense forum in California at the weekend.

McRaven said there would be extensive vetting of Libyan personnel trained by the United States.
No word on personnel responsible for Benghazi attack.
Posted by:Besoeker

#2  ...WCPGW (What Could Possibly Go Wrong)?

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2013-11-18 20:45  

#1  No way the USA can allow Eastern Libyuh to become dominated or controlled by Radical Islam - too close to EGYPT = OIL FIELDS + SUEZ CANAL.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-11-18 18:44  

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