In early March 2013, a Jordanian security source revealed that the United States, Britain, and France were training non-Islamist rebels in Jordan.

"We have trouble getting enough food for the men," said Didar Abdul Jaber, a former Iraqi major now training rebels.

They are now awaiting trial and charges that they were training rebels in bomb-making techniques.

Between 1967 and 1969, he trained rebels in the Congo.

In 1983, General Noriega set up an operation to train rebels fighting the Sandinista Government in Nicaragua.

The companion said at the time that Mr. Sadler had been training Nicaraguan rebels in Guatemala and had received death threats.

Rebel Kamal Hodaifa reported that the team's purpose was to train rebels in anti-tank tactics.

In 1987, two years before the end of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the U.K. and U.S. were sending teams in-country to train Afghani rebels, the mujahedin.

Unionists want the same ruling applied to the Irish Republican Army after allegations that its members have carried out vigilante attacks and have trained Colombian rebels in guerrilla warfare.

So when the Reagan Administration announced it was training Nicaraguan rebels somewhere in the United States, but would not say exactly where, a lot of people believed this was the place.