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 Beyonce leaves national anthem unfinished. Musk says his new party is in business. See the best BBQ cities in the US. A space capsule carrying ashes of 160 people crashed in the ocean. Report an error