Libya rebels spin rubbish into weapons

Benghazi, Libya (CNN) — Two months ago, Massoud Ojeli was in college, study English — though now, he works during a tip temporary weapons bureau in Libya, welding together gangling tools to make arms for a country’s antithesis forces.

“It’s a really uncanny feeling, though I’m unapproachable of this,” a 20-year-old Ojeli says with a smile, in between his work crafting rocket launchers in a prohibited petrify room space in a insurgent building of Benghazi.

The rebels postulated CNN singular entrance to a place where bend douse and skill spin shop-worn and dented aged weapons into rough-and-ready murdering machines.

About 200 group proffer during a factory, nearing around 8 a.m. and withdrawal around 3 p.m., when a object is hottest over a dry landscape.

They don’t get paid, though there is no necessity of help. Ojeli’s father volunteers during a factory, too, and his dual small brothers hang around to offer dignified support.

“I do this for my country,” Ojeli says.

Many of a group are soldiers who have defected from a regime of Libyan personality Moammar Gadhafi, though others are newcomers.

Asked either he knows what he’s doing during a weapons factory, Rami Tarhouni smiles and laughs.

“I don’t have idea,” he says. “I don’t have idea, though I’m trying.”

A few weeks ago, Tarhouni was an word agent. Another volunteer, Ali Abdul Salam, was in pharmaceuticals. He flashes a feat sign.

“People who’ve never seen weapons in their lives are creation them from nothing,” says Col. Mohammed Algarobelli, who says he defected from Gadhafi’s atmosphere force.

In one partial of a bureau is an aged weapons pod from an aged jet fighter. By a time they’re finished with it — if all goes good — a volunteers will have incited it into 32 shoulder-fired barb launchers.

Elsewhere, Soviet-era rocket launchers are damaged adult to fit on smaller vehicles like pickup trucks to go to a front lines.

Using whatever they can get their hands on can compensate off in a place like this; a row propitious with domicile light switches is used to launch a rockets from a behind of a trucks. There’s never a pledge of success, however.

“Sometimes we have something that doesn’t work,” Ojeli admits.

He says if he had his way, Gadhafi would be left and he could go behind to college. Until then, he says, he’s gripping his new job.