mr. wehrey, you testify.recently that overwhelmingly the country's political leaders are rejecting violence for political means and that they are committed to some sort of a democratic path forward and that they will have greater cooperation with the u.s. can you explain in more detail what their willingness is or how that willingness to cooperate with u.s. is manifesting itself, and what can we do? again, it is really significant that a lot -- some islamist who at one time were foes of the united states, these leaders are now in the ministries, they are meeting with united states diplomats, meeting with our ambassador there. it goes back to the tremendous goodwill that stems from the intervention there. they look at the areas where we can help as applying our own democracy, how do you run a parliament. you have to remember -- and i was in libya under gaddafi -- it was an orwellian state where people had no role in their self governments. they had no experience that you and i take for granted. they are sendin

mr. wehrey, in your testimony cannot you discussed at length the challenges that outside assistance, including from countries like the united states, turkey, britain, morocco, and italy, face in terms of providing training assistance in the development of an effective libyan army. can you elaborate and what your recommendations to this committee would be? >> again, i think i would recognize that before this training can take effect or before you can build a real security sector, you have to have political reconciliation in this country. libyan's have to get together and hammer at out a broad pact. they have to go forward with this national dialogue. much of the paralysis and outside assistance has not had an effect is because there has not been this reconciliation among these factions. i would urge outsiders to focus on sequencing, that we need to support the libyans in these political issues in reforming their parliament from in the national dialogue, in the constitution so that this training can take full effect. it is the horse before the wagon. there has to be security in the country for t

mr. wehrey, in your testimony cannot you discussed at length the challenges that outside assistance, includingfrom countries like the united states, turkey, britain, morocco, and italy, face in terms of providing training assistance in the development of an effective libyan army. can you elaborate and what your recommendations to this committee would be? >> again, i think i would recognize that before this training can take effect or before you can build a real security sector, you have to have political reconciliation in this country. libyan's have to get together and hammer at out a broad pact. they have to go forward with this national dialogue. much of the paralysis and -- why outside assistance has not had an effect is because there has not been this reconciliation among these factions. i would urge outsiders to focus on sequencing, that we need to support the libyans in these political issues in reforming their parliament from in the national dialogue, in the constitution so that this training can take full effect. it is the horse before the wagon. there has to be security in the country