Libya Trains Thousands of Rebels to Guard Oil Facilities
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Libya is training former rebels to protect oil installations across the North African nation, the head of the country’s state oil company said.
The ministry of defense is training 10,339 citizens and militiamen who took part in the revolt that ousted the regime of Muammar Qaddafi last year, National Oil Corp. Chairman Nuri Berruien said yesterday in a telephone interview in the capital, Tripoli. They will join an existing force of 2,500 security workers by the end of the year, he said.