The first question that will have to face the British is "whose army?".
That they find themselves informing a ragtag force rebel who cannot yet agree that his superior officer is, in the middle of feuding between the two generals accompanying disreputable baggage.
Dysfunction has been fully exposed here this week. "I control all over the world, the rebels and the forces of the regular army," one of the two, GEN Khalifa Hifter, said in an interview on Monday. "I am the Commander, and General Abdul Fattah Younes is Chief of staff." "His job is to support us in the field, and my job is to lead fighting".
Civilian leaders of the rebels, the National transition Council insisted that General Younes remains responsible for the army. "This is not true," an official close to the Council said Tuesday after learning the Hifter General claims. "General Younes is above him, it is certain and General Hifter is beneath him."
General Hifter clearly indicated that he considered General Younes as officer serving in a support or a logistics role, and he accused her explicitly to a string of humiliating pensions by rebels along the line of front seesawing between Brega and Ajdabiyamore recently, on Sunday, when seven rebels were killed in a counter-attack by Government forces who had transformed failed close.
"All what happened is the result of the command of Abdul Fattah Younes", he said. "That well why I came back to take charge, and in the next couple days I will be in charge of each unit, not a single unit." "I am ready to lead the forces now."
From the beginning, NATO military effort has been hampered by the disruption of the rebels and the lack of training, equipment and experience, who have left their unable to capitalize on the damage of air strikes of NATO to the forces of Colonel Gaddafi. The British mission aims to address these gaps, improve the Organization of the rebels, communications and logistics.
In recent weeks, as the forces of Colonel Gaddafi are adapted to aerial attacks, camouflage and blend with the civilian population, it became more difficult for NATO pilots to hit their targets without killing civilians - precisely so that the Organization of the UN sent it y to stop.
In the stalemate that ensued, as the Qathafi forces shell the rebel-held city of Misurata, killing hundreds of civilians, NATO credibility is suffering, with critics saying that it would weak and ineffectual research - especially compared to overwhelming attacks led by the United States in the first weeks of the air campaign.
Western powers have sought to rebel fighters out of the impasse, in the hope that they can be built into an effective fighting force. But the disorganization and infighting the continued direction of rebels is an obstacle. even countries which have expressed their support for the cause of the rebels are following orders of armaments, at least in part to concern about the disarray.
All doubt castings on the ability of Britain advisors to create one if military, effective rebel rebel leaders cannot stop fighting among themselves.
The first concrete report of weapons of the donor countries, reaching the rebels come Tuesday, but significantly, this expedition, 400 AK-47 rifles, moved step two generals claiming to be the leader of the rebels. Instead, they went directly to a civilian, Fawzi Bukatef, a petroleum engineer who was other civilian training.
Mr. Bukatef said that he had sent only 400 freshly volunteers armed to forward with new weapons, it had received anonymous donor - widely believed be Qatar, who freely acknowledged his intention to send weapons to the rebels. He knows that the two generals, he said and feels disappointed by the two.
"These guys are a problem for us on the front because we do not know who is responsible," said Mr. Bukatef. "They coordinate not between them, and I do not think that they like each other same."
Tuesday, a compromise of sorts was suggested by colonel Ahmed Bani, the Libyan official spokesman for the rebel forces. "They are both at the same level, and the two response to Omar Hariri, the Minister of defence", he said. But that promise little to resolve the situation.
General Hifter claims that its new authority on the forces on the ground came from the National Council of transition, and he said that it is not true that the Council had him withdraw military command after a controversial at the end of March and handed over the first meeting place to General YounesAncien Interior Minister colonel Gaddafi.
"It was only a wish on their part," he said.
An officer of high rank on his staff, said that civil servants have not dared to remove General Hifter. He said "if they thought as much to do, people would kill them."
rebel fighter is located at the back of a truck mounted with a rocket launcher to a position on the road between Ajdabiyah and Brega in