"The Pentagon and State Department are speeding
up efforts to help the Libyan government create a commando force to
combat Islamic extremists like the ones who killed the American
ambassador in Libya last month and to help counter the country’s fractious militias, according to internal government documents.
The Obama administration quietly won Congress’s approval last month to
shift about $8 million from Pentagon operations and counterterrorism aid
budgeted for Pakistan to begin building an elite Libyan force over the
next year that could ultimately number about 500 troops. American
Special Operations forces could conduct much of the training, as they
have with counterterrorism forces in Pakistan and Yemen, American
officials said."
