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Here you have see young children, many of them only 5, 6 years old. handling ak-47s. one location was for women to receive weapons training. the second location where we are located now was for men to receive weapons training. at each location weapons were repeatedly fired into the air. one of the shell casings land on my head. journalists ran for cover when the aks were fired. fortunately no one was hurt. but the message delivered was extremely clear. the people here saying they are going to st...

Confirm that nato will take command of the libyan operation. >> thank you. desperately in need of fresh recruit but short on time, the libyan rebels are getting a crash course in weapons training. senior correspondent rick leventhal has that story. >> this used to be a military training academy for gaddafis army. now it serves the revolution. the instructors are former soldiers including special forces. teaching benghazi civilians how to fight. >> i am a computer engineer. until the government o...

Contacts that go back a decade. weve learned that iraq has trained al qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and deadly gases. iraq has sent bomb making and document forgery experts to work with al qaeda. iraq has also provided al qaeda with chemical and biological weapons training. >> hes a threat because he is dealing with al qaeda. >> iraq was linked to al qaeda, and therefore, to 9/11, and therefore, we had to invade iraq. none of that was true. and so when those rationales stopped passing...

Combat-specific training, such as convoy live fire exercises, reaction to ambush, weapons training, combat and life saving training and other skills. and when i was in afghanistan, i spoke with some women who were part of female engagement teams. they walk foot patrols outside the wire and do get additional training. >> we do this one drill where we have all of our gear on, like a full combat load. and we do a whole bunch of push-ups and then sprint and then try to shoot so we understand what it...

Tonight. thanks so much. and as promised at the top of this newscast, breaking news now. a jury has just found a transit officer in oakland, california, guilty of shooting and killing an unarmed passenger on a train. it happened on new years day 2009. a witness got the incident on cell phone video. you can see the officer shooting that victim as he lay face down on the platform. the defense attorney says it was a tragic accident and that the transit officer meant to use his stun gun but confused...

The countrys mood in the early 70s made it even tougher. >> it was definitely a unique time period in west points history. almost all of my professors were vietnam veterans so vietnam was a constant threat in every class. protestors came on campus a lot. we were aware of the public disagreement with the war. i was personally spit upon port authority in new york. we were aware of some of the -- aware of a lot of the public discontent. we soldiered on. that was our job. >> in the midst of all of t...

Beirut, its a fact in iraq and this was not an intelligence fairly. were not blaming anybody. you can throw billions of dollars at this but there are cars everywhere that can be set off using gasoline as well as propane and how do you detect that? you cant. >> shepard: the hope is if a man becomes a naturalized citizen, makes 13 trips to pakistan and claims he got bomb making instructions, you would hope that would be the person that raises a red flag. do you buy this idea that he had five month...

United states and could take part in martyr dom operations. they undertook light weapons training. the defendant here, zarein ahmedzay, was a cab driver who would have expertise on it is targets. they decided to go after the new york city subway system. he waffled a little bit on whether or not to go ahead and they decided they would proceed in the holy islamic month of ramadan but they were under scrutiny by the f.b.i. and decided to dump the chemicals they were going to use and the group was a...

Belonging to one of its members. but he died a few months ago and his family cut off the militias access to the property. now they do a lot of their training on public state parks. and even use a public gun range for weapons training. kind of interesting to see you guys mixed in with the normal, average folks. >> thats what we are, you know? >> whats expected of someone to join the militia? >> you have to own a rifle. you have to know how to take the rifle apart in the field to clean it. then yo...

He needed a shave and had to lose some weight. we saw him at the very beginning, talked to his family back home yesterday. today the critical weapons training that he will need to su vief on the battlefield. jason carroll has been following this young man every step of the way. its always something interesting. weapons training. that had to be something for him. >> cant get through basic training without passing this crucial part. for privates like will mcclain, the stress isnt just about passin...