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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 stand and defend moammar qaddafi at all costs. he's not just count on armed civilians to protect tripo...

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 gaddafi's 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 of gaddafi started using weapons against us. >> the trainees include shop owners to risk their live ...

Contacts that go back a decade. we've 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. >> he's 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 the smell test, the bush administration decided to sell the american people instead on another ju...

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's like to shoot under pressure. >> sanchez says in the civilian world, there's a reason human resou...

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 year's 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 it with his real gun because he didn't have enough weapons training. however, the officer is white...