Benghazi rebels strive for discipline

Libyan volunteers set up boot camp for revolutionaries – ‘No one knows how to use their weapon. No discipline’ Mareh Bejou was a pilot for Emirates when he flew in to Tripoli in mid-February. The next day he was a revolutionary who told his airline it had better send another pilot to take the plane back to Dubai. Now Bejou, after his own crash course in fighting and surviving on the battlefield, is one of those in charge of a military training camp attempting to turn the volunteers of Benghazi into soldiers against Muammar Gaddafi “I came to do my part in a peaceful demonstration but we were met with guns. For four days they were shooting at us, even using anti-aircraft guns. So I learned how to use a Kalashnikov and an RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] on the battlefield,” said Bejou, who has been a pilot for 30 years. “I spent three weeks on the battlefield and it wasn’t organised at all. No discipline. No one knew how to use their weapons. We set up this camp to change that.” At the training ground inside a former Gaddafi military base on the edge of Benghazi on Thursday more than 1,000

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