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英语四级阅读美中情局在利比亚内部秘密开展工作

　　Offering what he says are personal views, former senior CIA officer Emile Nakhleh says it is likely the CIA is providing some form of non-lethal assistance to the rebels, especially in terms of communications and organization.

　　They probably would provide them with communications gear, from the most basic walkie-talkies to a bit more advanced cellular telephones, said Nakhleh. Two, they might perhaps help train them in how to attack or how to anticipate Gadhafis attacks. I mean, the fact is, theyre just a bunch of ragtag enthusiastic opposition people to the regime but have no idea even of how to organize.

　　Nakhleh believes, however, that there is nothing stopping CIA officers from training the rebels on captured weapons.

　　We would need to train them how to use the weapons they have already captured from the Gadhafi forces. Some of them have captured some of these rockets and they dont know how to fire them. So we can, I think, do all kinds of things before, even way below, the level of arming them with U.S. arms, said the former CIA officer.

　　But many analysts believe that for the rebels to turn the tide back in their favor, they will need sophisticated weapons, such as those the U.S. provided to Afghan rebels fighting Soviet occupation in the 1980s - and specialized training on how to use them.

　　Secret authorization

　　According to published accounts quoting Obama administration sources, President Barack Obama signed a secret authorization, known as a presidential finding, authorizing possible future training and arming of the rebels.