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Bill: is there greater organization on behalf of the rebels? and based on what you have seen have they made any ground on qaddafi? >> reporter: they are training. they do have some professional former qaddafi army members training them. we visited a training site, a former qaddafi army base where regular civilians including computer engineers and shop owners are getting five days of basic training learning how to fire weapons and anti-aircraft guns and they are being sent to the front lines. >> serious questions about the length of the international military operation in libya. france's foreig...

Teenagers are among the recruits, learning from everything from rocket launchers to akaye 47's. >> this is the first time i touch gun. >> i'm a computer engineer. i have never carried a weapon before. until the government of qaddafi started using weapons against us and started attacks us. >> shepard: hope springs eternal. they don't have a lot to work with instructures include former qaddafi army soldiers who have switched sides. one man said he could whip the recruits into shape in a month. instead, he gets five days. those men working with far fewer resources than what their enemy has availa...

Us now on the phone from benghazi. how are things there today? >> benghazi relatively quiet but to the south of us about 95 miles south, we're hearing some real horror stories of qaddafi army troops in control of the city taking off their uniforms, breaking into homes, kidnapping people, using them as human shields, driving around in private cars and shooting at residents. a real bad situation obviously. they're in control of that town and the tanks are blocking -- >> ok. we just lost the signal from rick leventhal. he was talking about the tanks. we do know as well that tanks rolled in and co...

The satellite -- the connection isn't good, we're outside this town, the fight is raging between rebel fighters and qaddafi forces, the highway is littered with tanks, rocket launchers, heavy arlilry that hassen taken out by the nato fighter jets that enforce the no fly zone but the qaddafi army has four tanks and heavy artillery and as we got closer to latina, as we were talking about how the fight was going another man drove up and spoke a word that qaddafi's army was now in a flanking manure -- maneuver, coming around the other side of the town and there was a threat they believe to our pos...

Here is his report from earlier. >> the highway between benghazi and ajdabiya is littered with tanks, rocket launchers and heavy artillery taken out by the nato firefighter jets. enforcing no-fly zone. the qaddafi army still has more tanks and heavy artillery. as we got close we pulled over to talk to a rebel fighter who had a pickup truck with antiaircraft gun welded into the back of the bed. as we were talking to them about how the fight was going, another man drove up and spread the word that qaddafi's army had -- was now in a flanking maneuver and coming around the other side of the town. ...