OBAMA SENDS CIA TO TRAIN LIBYAN REBELS WHILE THE REBELS RECRUIT AL- QAEDA The CIA has sent a covert team into rebel-held eastern Libya while the White House debates whether to arm the opposition, NPR has confirmed. The operatives are in Libya to direct NATO airstrikes and train rebel fighters."The CIA team is there to train them how to shoot, how to fight, how to have military discipline," NPR's Deborah Amos reported from Cairo.
The team's deployment was authorized after President Obama signed what's called a "finding," a legal step necessary before the CIA can carry out secret operations, NPR's Tom Bowman reported. The move puts the U.S. squarely on the side of the rebels."They'll no longer be able to say that the coalition is there only to protect civilians," Bowman said.  
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O-BOMB-A KILLS 40 MORE CIVILIANS IN TRIPOLI         HOSPITALS HIT

ROME (Reuters) - At least 40 more civilians have been killed in air strikes by Western forces on Tripoli, the top Vatican official in the Libyan capital told a Catholic news agency on Thursday, quoting witnesses. "The so-called humanitarian raids have killed dozens of civilian victims in some neighborhoods of Tripoli," said Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli. "I have collected several witness accounts from reliable people. In particular, in the Buslim neighborhood, due to the bombardments, a civilian building collapsed, causing the death of 40 people," he told Fides, the news agency of the Vatican missionary arm.ROME (Reuters) - At least 40 civilians have been killed in air strikes by Western forces on Tripoli, the top

"Yesterday I said that bombardments had hit, some hospitals. To be precise, one of these hospitals is in Mizda," he said, mentioning a town about 145 km (90 miles) southwest of the capital.Martinelli said living conditions in the Libyan capital were getting more difficult by the day, while on the ground a military stalemate appeared to be taking hold.

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