A Look Inside The Libyan Rebel's Training Camps

Libya: Inside Benghazi's Rebel Training Camps -- The Telegraph

Libyan insurgents may be making sporadic progress - but their tactics need a lot of work, finds Ben Farmer at a rebel training camp.

The ageing military instructor had assumed the statuesque pose of a javelin thrower to teach his rebel pupils how to fire a rocket-propelled grenade.

"It flies through the air like this," he demonstrated gravely, grasping the rocket projectile in his right hand like a paper aeroplane.

Seated at his feet in deep, but puzzled attention were nearly 30 cross-legged students dressed in everything from long traditional robes to business suits, rather than fatigues.

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My Comment: Is Gaddafi and his son's doing the same thing on their side of the front line .... something is telling me that they are relying on mercenaries and the remnants of their army. If this becomes a war of attrition, and the rebels are able to obtain a steady supply of weapons, my money is now on the rebels to succeed.