World | Libya Libyan Rebels Get Secret Training Anonymous rebel says US, Egyptian forces teaching them By Polly Davis Doig Posted Apr 3, 2011 10:59 AM CDT Copied Libyan rebels shell pro Gadhafi positions just outside Brega, Libya, Sunday, April 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) There have been reports that the CIA's on the ground in Libya, but al-Jazeera now says that Libyan rebels are receiving covert training and possibly weapons from US and Egyptian special forces. An unnamed rebel tells a Jazeera reporter in Benghazi that rebels had been supplied with "state-of-the-art, heat-seeking rockets" that entered the country through Egypt, "and that they needed to be trained on how to use them, which was one of the things the American and Egyptian special forces were there to do." The report might explain why rebels have been so reticent about criticizing NATO troops. Read These Next He heckled President Trump, is now $430K richer. Officials say ICE agent who shot Renee Good had internal bleeding. Dems and Republicans team up to block Trump on Greenland. Verizon finally got phones out of SOS mode. Report an error