The first question, which are the British face is "Whose army?"
For them, it will find that a ragtag rebel advice, that force even that who the top officer to agree amid squabbling between two generals who come with disgusting luggage.
The dysfunction was on full screen here this week. "I all, the rebels and the regular army control forces," one of the two, General Khalifa Hifter, said in an interview on Monday. "I am the field commander, and Chief of staff is General Abdul Fattah Younes." "His mission is to support us in the area, and my job is, do the fighting."
The rebel civilian leadership, transitional National Council, has, however, insisted that that General Younes remains responsible for the military. "This is not true," said an official claims close to the Council Tuesday as declared General Hifter. "General Younes is about him, that's for sure, and General Hifter is under it."
General Hifter made clear that he regarded in a support or logistical role which was general Younes as an officer, and he accused him explicitly for a string of humiliating retreat by rebels along the alternating front between Brega and Ajdabiya, most recently on Sunday, when seven rebels during a counter attack by government troops, close to a rout were killed.
"Everything that happens there was the result of the command of Abdul Fattah Younes," he said. "That is why I came back to take, and I will not a unit in the next couple days free of charge of any unit." "I am ready, the forces now run always."
From the outset, NATO has added disabled military efforts of disorganization of the rebels and lack of training, equipment and experience, who have left, not on the damage to benefit Colonel Qadhafi forces of NATO air strikes. The British mission is organization, communication and logistics to combat these shortcomings, improve the rebels.
The Colonel Qadhafi last week, forces to the air strikes, with camouflage and mix with civilians, have adapted it exactly what become sent more difficult for pilots, NATO, its objectives to meet without civilians killed - the UN them there to stop.
In the ensuing standoff, as shell held city of Misurata, forcing rebels killed hundreds of civilians the Gaddafi who suffers credibility to NATO, critics say, search it risks weak and ineffective - especially when compared with the blistering American-led attacks in the first weeks of the air campaign.
The Western powers were looking for the rebel fighters, break the logjam in the hope that they can be integrated into an effective fighting force. But the sustained disorganization and infighting within the rebel leadership is an obstacle; even countries to enter into the support for the rebels are cause for armament, at least in part from concerns about the confusion.
All of which raises doubts as to the possibility for Britain's consultants, an effective rebel military, if that create the leader can not stop, fight with each other.
The first specific report weapons from foreign donors reach the rebels the broadcast came on Tuesday, but clearly, 400 AK-47 rifles, went by one of the two generals claiming to be the leader of the rebels. Instead, they went directly to a civilian, Fawzi Bukatef, an oil engineer, that training has other civilians.
Mr Bukatef said he had just sent 400 fresh armed volunteers to the front with the new weapons had it from unnamed donors receive - widely believed Qatar that freely acknowledged his intention to send arms to the rebels. He knows both generals, he said, and feels through both in the lurch.
Mr Bukatef said "These guys are a problem for us on the front because we don't know who is responsible,". "they are to coordinate with each other, and I don't think that they even like."
On Tuesday, a compromise was suggested Bani, the official spokesman of the Libyan rebels by Colonel Ahmed type. "they are both at the same level, and both reply to Omar al-Hariri, the Minister of defence," he said. But, the little promise of resolving the situation.
General Hifter claimed that his new authority over the forces in the field from the Transitional National Council, and he said it was not true that the Council had hit him after a contentious end of March by military command centre and the top position on General Younes of abandonment that first Qadhafi former Interior Minister.
"It was only a desire on their part," he said.
A senior officer on his staff said that the civilian officials did not dare to remove General Hifter. "If they so much as to do that, people would kill them", he said.
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