With the death of Muammar Ghaddafi during a NATO-led airstrike to capture Sirte, his hometown, Libyans yesterday began to chart a future for their country after a 42-years reign of the late maximum leader.
Prime Minister Mahm-oud Jibril unfolded plans for elections, within eight months, of a national council to draft a new constitution and for the formation of an interim national government.
The country's National Transitional Council plans to declare the full "liberation" of Libya today after the killing of Ghaddafi by fighters in Sirte. Jibril has said he plans to resign after liberation.
"After the death of Ghaddafi last week, the priority is now on removing weapons from Libya's streets, restoring stability and initiating a process of national reconciliation," Jibril said at a World Economic Forum in Jordan.
He said: "The first election should take place within a period of eight months, maximum, to constitute a national congress of Libya, some sort of parliament.
"This national congress would have two tasks - draft a constitution, on which we would have a referendum, and the second to form an interim government to last until the first presidential elections are held."
Ghaddafi's death, which Jibril said left him feeling "relieved and reborn", achieved the main goal that united the rag-tag militias and army battalions that have battled his forces since an uprising began in February.
Stability will require the NTC - which comprised secular liberals, Islamists and tribal elders - to prove a willingness to compromise, a quality that was anathema under Ghaddafi's system of one-man rule.
Meanwhile, Ghaddafi's relatives have demanded a chance to bury his body that has been lying on display in a meat locker since Friday.
In a statement on a Syria-based pro- Ghaddafi television station, the ousted dictator's family asked for the bodies of Ghaddafi, his son, Muatassim and others who were killed Thursday.
"We call on the UN, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and Amnesty International to force the Transitional Council to hand over the martyrs' bodies to our tribe in Sirte and to allow them to perform their burial ceremony in accordance with Islamic customs and rules," the statement said.
Ghaddafi's blood-streaked body has been put on display in a commercial freezer at a shopping centre in Misrata as Libyan authorities argued about where to bury the remains.
Fighters from Misrata - a city brutally besieged by Ghaddafi's forces during the civil war - seemed to claim ownership of it, forcing the delay of a planned burial Friday.
Fathi Bashagha, a spokesman for the Misrata military council, said a decision would be made on his burial later and ruled out a full autopsy unless demanded by an international committee or the transitional government, "and so far there have been no requests."
At least, four groups of doctors have examined the body and determined the cause of death was a bullet to the head and stomach, Bashagha said.
"As far as we are concerned in Misrata, doctors have checked him and determined how he died, so there is no need to cut his body up," he said.
The bloody siege of Misrata over the summer instilled a particularly virulent hatred of Ghaddafi there - hatred now mixed with pride because he was captured and killed by fighters from Libya's third-largest city.
Residents crowded into long lines to get a chance to view the body of Ghaddafi, which was laid out on a mattress on the floor of an emptied-out vegetable and onion freezer.
Men, women and children filed in to take their picture with the body, with some chanting "We want to see the dog."
The site's guards had even organised separate visiting hours for families and single men.
Ghaddafi's 69-year-old body was stripped to the waist, his torso and arms streaked with dried blood. Bullet wounds in the chest, abdomen and left side of the head were visible.
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I WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THE REBELS TO SHOW ISLAMIC JUSTICE BY GIVING HIS BODY TO THE TRIBE OF GADDAFI SO THEY COULD BURY HIM WITH RITES SOME HOW WE ARE SEEING THE WESTERN BEHAVIOUR AS WE SAW WITH BINLADEN . THESE REBELS SHOULD HAVE SHOWN PRIDE BY SAYING TO THE WORLD LOOK WE ARE NOT LIKE GADDAFI WE ARE HUMANE AND PEACELOVING PEOPLE. WE COULD BE SPITEFUL AND INHUMANE AND SHOW THE WORLD WE KNOW NOT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BUT WE REFUSE TO BEHAVE IN THIS MANNER WER'E SERVANTS OF ALLAH AND WE WISH TO SHOW HUMILITY AND ALLOW THIS MAN, EVEN THOUGH WE CONSIDER HIM ATYRANT BUT HE WAS ALEADER SO WE WILL AFFORD HIM THOSE RITES. HOWEVER WE CAN SEE WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR LIBYA . THE BLACK TOWNSHIP OUTSIDE MSRATAH IS DESRTED THESE PEOPLE ARE RACE HATING ETHNIC CLEANSING AND THESE ARE THE TYPES OF CONFLICTS NATO LEADS. NO HUMANITARIAN CAN SAY THAT MURDER AND HATE RESOLVES CONFLICTS IT DEEPENS AND WIDENS THE GAPS IN EVERY SINGLE CASE. WHAT WE MUST REALISE IS THAT NATO AND THE WEST HAS SPENT ZILLION SOF DOLLARS ON ARMOURY FORGETTING THE CORE PRINCIPLE WHICH IS HUMANITY. THEY ARE OVERARMED AND KNOW NOT WHAT TO DO WITH THESE WEAPONS . WE ARE LIVING IN AMORE SOPHISTICATED TIME WHEN PEOPLE ARE THINKERS AND FIND THAT BLOODLETTING IS SENSELESS AND HAS NO FUTURE . AS WE SAW EARLY IN OBAMS PRESIDENCY HE WENT ON WORLD WIDE TOUR AS THE BIGGEST ARMS KING PIN IN HISTORY.THE CONTRIBUTED OVER £200,000,000,000,000 IF NOT MORE TO THE COIFURES OF THE PENTAGON AND THEIR ARMS INDUSTRY. THEN THE FRENCH AND BRITISH GOT IN ON THEIR SPREE. WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS WE SAW THE MIDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES BUYING THE BULK . MY QIESTION IS WHO ARE THEY FIGHTING AGAINST ? THEY SEEM TO BUY THESE THINGS TO KILL THEIR OWN AND KEEP THEIR REGIMES ALIVE. THESE WEAPONS ARE NOT SOLD TO FIGHT AGAINST THE JEWS OR THE AMERICANS THEY WANT TO INSTILL FEAR IN THE IRANIANS AND KEEP THE REGION HOTWITH DIVISION AND CONFLICT. THEY WANT HATE TO BE THE ORDER OF THE DAY AT ALL COST. SO THIS IS WHY WE SEE THESE REBELS HAVE ADOPTED THE STANCE OF THE US THEY FEED OF ETHNICITY AND SEGREGATION. IN ORDER FOR THE US AND FRANCE THE UK TO HAVE MADE THIS LIBYAN CRUSADE BELIVEABLE THEY STOKED THE FIRE OF RACE HATE AND PREJUDICE THEY CREATED A RIFT IN ETHNICITY DIVIDING THE BLACKS OF AFRICA AGAINST THE BROWN OF AFRICA. THIS IS COMMON WHEN YOU INTEND TO INVADE A COUNTRY . THIS METHOD HAS BEEN USED FOR CENTURIES. WHAT THEY DIDI WAS TURN AFRICANS AGAINST EACH OTHER BY SIGNIFYING THAT THERE WAS IMMORALITY IN ONE OF THEIR LEADERS AND FOR GOOD CONSCIENCE IT WOULD BE BEST TO SANCTION ANDCREATE SOMEWHAT OF SIEGE AGAINST THIS LEADER. THIS DECEPTION HOWVER WAS INDED A PLOT OT SET ABOUT A A REVOLUTION IN LIBYA THAT WAS BIRTHED BY THE WEST AND WON BY THE WEST. LIBYANS STARTED THEIR REVOLUTION WITH HATE THEY SOLD SOME OF AFRICA ON THE IDEA THAT THERE WAS NO AFRICAN UNION AND WE SHOULD NOT AS ARABS SUPPORT THE AFRICAN UNIOPN. OFCOURSE WE KNOW THIS TO BE THE STANCE OF NATO. THEY BELIEVE THAT AFRICA SHOULD BE DIVIDED WITHIN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES THEY WOULD CONTINUE ALONG THE SAME CLONIAL ORDER. ETHNIC AND RACE DIVISION IS PARTR OF THE APARTHEID STRUCTURE THEY USE. THE LIBYAN REBELS BOUGHT INTO THIS CONCEPT BY GOING TO THE UN STATING THAT GADDAFI WAS USING SOUTHERN AFRICANS OR BLACK AFRICANS TO KILL AND MURDER ARABS . HENCE WE HAD A SITUATION OF ARABS UNITED AGAINST THE BLACKS. THIS DID NOT MAKE SENSE BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT AFRICA IS PREDOMINALY BLACL CONTINENT AS MUCH OFR WHAT WE CALL THE MID EAST IS BLACK AFRICAN OR WAS. THE SEED OF HATE WAS PLANTED IN LIBYAN MINDS AND THEY FELL INTO THIS SLEEPE WHERE THEY WANTED NOTHING TO DO WITH BLACKS BECAUSE THEY DIDI NOT TRUST BLACKS ; HOW COULD ANY SENSIBLE PERSON IDENTIFY WITH THAT?THEY THEN WANTED TO POTRAY GADDAFI AS ONE WHO DID NOTHING FOR HIS COUNTRY OR PEOPLE . AFRICANS WERE NOT FEEDING INTO THAT AS WE SAW THE SUPPORT THE GAVE TO FREEWIZE FIGHTERS THRUOUT THE CONTINENT. MR. MANDELA WAS APRTICULARLY VOCIFEROUS WHEN IT CAME TO HIS STANCE ON GADDAFI . AS FAR AS HE KNEW GADDAFI WAS HONOURABLE. HE DID NOT TOLERATE CORRUPTION AND HE WAS ADAMANT THAT AFRICA SHOULD HAVE ONE CURRENCY AND THE AU SHOULD BE MORE UNIFIED ON THE WORLD STAGE. AS FAR AS MOST AFRICANS WERE CONCERNED HE WAS AGREAT MAN BOTH IN AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA. WELL WE DONT LIVE IN LIBYA ANDTHE RESOURCEFULNES OF GADDAFI WAS LEGNDARY NO OWNERSHIP OF LIBYA BY THE WEST THEIR SUCCESS AT BEING ABLE TO BECOME THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN ALL AFRICA WAY ABOVE THE OTHER NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY MILLION PEOPLE. THIS WAS SOME ACOMPLISHMENT, AND TO BE ABLE TO HAVE FREE EDUCATION WITH SCHOLARSHIP POTENTIAL TO GO ABROADAND FREE HEALTH CARE WITH POTENTIAL IF RAELLY SICK TO GO ABROAD. THIS LIFESTYLE WAS HIGHER THAN MOST WESTREN COUNTRIES WHERE BESIDE THE UK AND MAYBE A FWE MORE COUNTRIES THERE IS NO FREE HEALTH CARE IN THE EWEST AND VERY WESTREN COUNTRIES HAVE WELFARE WHICH YOU HAD IN LIBYA.DEFINITELY NO OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES HAS THESE TYPES OF SOCIAL PROGRMAS SOUTH AFRICA MIGHT BE THE ONLY OTHER WHICH HAD IN PLACE THESE SOCIALADVANTAGES . AFRICANS WERE PARTICULARLY GRATEFUL TO GADDAFI FOR ALLOWING MANY TO COME THERE AND WORK WITH GOOD SALARIES BEING ABLE TO FFED THEIR FAMILIES AT HOME. SO A PLACE IN AFRICA IN THE NORTH WAS THE DESTINATION OF MANY HARD WORKING AFRICANS WHO ALSO BECAME CITSENS SO THEY COULD BENIFIT FROM THE CHANCE OF RECIEVING AGRAND EDUCATION. THE REBELS TURNED THIS ALONGSIDE THEIR WESTERN BACKERSMTO MEAN THEY WERE MERCENARIES ANDTHE ONLY THING BLACK PEOPLE WERE DOING IN LIBYA WAS BEING HIRED TO KILLARABS. THIS WAS BASELESS AND WITHOUT MERIT. THE SLAUGHTER OF AFRICANS BEGAN WITH A FRENZY ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY WERE NOW KNOWN TO YOU LIBYANS AS NIGGERS AS WAS HEARD MENTIONED TO A REPORTER ON AL JAZEERA. YES! I HEARD IT . IT WAS QUICKLY SCRUBBED THE INTERVIEW BUT THE WORD WAS CLEAR. I ALSO WAOULD LIKE TO THANK MOST OF THE ARA B PRESS FOR HELPING TO PROMOTE THIS PROPOGANDA THIS WAS TAKEN UP WITH RAPID SPEED AND SENT WORLD WID. SO THERE WAS NO PITY FOR BLACKS IN ARAB MINDS ANDEVEN ABROAD THEIR WAS DISSENT IN MOSQUES AS SOME WERE CLEARLY WESTERN SUPPORTERS. WHAT WAS CONFUSINGTO MOST ARABS ABROAD WAS THAT THEY MISTOOK THE WORD DEMOCRACY TO MEAN THEY WANTED TO HAVE STRONMG RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE WEST. THEY DID NOT GRASP THE IDEA THAT TH REVOLUTION WAS TO RETRACT OR DISTTANCE ITSELF FROM THESE PARSITES WHO HAVE PUT THE COUNTRIES IN SQUALOR AND DENIED THEM THEIR EQUAL RIGHTS AND HAD THEM LIVE LIKE DOGS IN THEIR OWN LANDS WHILE THEY SUPPORTED THE DICTATORS IN THEIR COUNTRIES. AFRICANS WER NOT NAIVE ENOUGH TO THINK THAT GADDAFIWAS ONE OF THESE PEOPLE AS WE KNOW TODAY AS WE KNEW YESTERDAY LIBYA HAS NO INSTITUTION AS SUCH WHICH IS A GREAT THING AS PEOPLE I THESE NEW FREEAND INDEPENDENT PLACES WOULD LIKE TO STRUCTURE ALONG SOME OF THOSE LINES . AFRICANS DONT WANT THESE PERSONALITIES WHOM CAN BE BOUGHT BUY THEIR ALLIANCES WITH WESTERN LEADERS . THEY HAVE SO MNY ARTICLES OF WAR THEY NEED BUSINESSES AND PLACES WHERE THEY CAN SEE HOW EFFECTIVE IT IS AGAINST THE PEOPLE. THE US IS ALOS PREPARING ITS FORCES TO COMBAT ITS OWN PEOPLE AS THEY ARE REOLTING AGINST THE VERY THINGS THAT THE LIBYANS ARE DYING FOR. IT SEEMS THE THIS NEW LIBYA IS DYING TO GO TO HELL WHILE EVERYONE ELSE IS DYING TO GET OUT HOW INCREDUBLE. ANYWAY THE CONFLICT OF INTERST BEGAN TO ALMOST SPLIT THE AFRICAN UNION WHICH IS THE EST'S BIGGEST PLOY. THEY BROUGHT DOWN WEST AFRICAS BIGGEST ECONOMY AND NOW THEY BROUGHT DONW AFRICAS RICHEST ECONOMY.THE LIBYANS ARE SAYING GADDAFI WAS FUNDING AFRICA. IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT?THE WHITES HAVE BEEN EXTORTING AFRICA EXPLOITING AFRICA SO WHO WOULD YOU SUGGEST WE ASK FOR HJELP? AS I CAN NOW SEE THE PLATFORM OF LIBYA THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HELP AFRICA IN THE FUTURE AS THEY WONT BE ABLE TO HELP THEMSELVES. SOMETIMES I WONDER IF THEY SEE HOW FARBACK THEY HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN TIME AND HOW MUCH DESTRUCTION LAYS UPON THEIR COUNTRY. YOU CANT BLACME BLACK PEOPLE FOR THAT!THIS TYPE OF DESTRUCTION WAS UNECESSARY. THIS GOES WAY AND BEYOND THIS WAS OVERKILL. THIS SUMS UP THE MINDS OF THESE IMPERIALIST THEY DO EVERY THING OVER THE TOPTHEY HAVE LITTLE CONSCIENCE THIS WAS DIABOLICAL . THEY HYPED UP TH YOUTHS TO START MURDERING GADDAFI HAD NO IDEA THE PEOPLE RESENTED HIM IN THAT WAY AND WHEN I KEEP HEARING OF ALL THIS DEATH I FEEL THIS WAS THE REASON FOR OVERKILL KILL AS MANYAS POSSIBLE ABD SAY HOW CORRECT YOUR BOMBINMG WAS. INTELLIGENT PEOPLE KNOWS THERE COULD NEVER HAVE FOUND SO MANY TARGETS IN SUCH A SPARSE AREA WHERE WAS ALL THSI . IF WE FOLLOW WESTERN MEDIA ANDTHEIR BOUTHT OUT ALLES WE WILL SAY THAT LIBYA WAS JSUT ONE GREAT ARMY BARRACKE WITH POPULATIONS FOR PEOPLE EVERYONE LIVED ON THE BARRACKS THIS WAS WHY THEY FLEW 6,000 SORUTES IN THIS VASTLY DESERT NATION. THE DEATH OF GADDAFI WAS INTENDED BY THE CIA AND THE WEST IN THE VERY BEGINNING THEY TRIED UNSUCCESFULY FOR MONTHS AFTER BOMBING THE CONVOY THE YOUTHS WHO CAPTURED HIM INJURED WANTED THE REPUTATION AS BEING THE ONE WHO KILLED GADDAFI THEY WERE SO FULL OF HATE WHAT ELSE WOULD THEY DO. THIS COUNTRY HAS DIVIDED ITSELF ALONG COLOUR LINES AND THERE AREW STILL MILLIONS IN LIBYA WHO ARE AGDDAFIITESSO BY MISTREATING HIS BODY WITH SUCH DISDAIN AND NOT TRULY WELCOMING THEIR BLACK BROTHERS WHO ARE LIBYAN FROM INDIGENOUSBEGINNIGS ALSO THE AFRICAN FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE CONTINENT WHO ARE ALSO NOW LIBYANS THEY HAVE CREATED A TYPE OF( FREEDOM) THE WEST PRACTICES. THE REVOLUTIONS IN EGYPT TUNISIA WERE ONES OF INCLUSIVENSS WHERE NO MEBER OF THEIR COUNTRY WAS ISOLATED OR FELT THEIR VOICE COULD NOT BE HEARD. THE WEST INTERVENED IN LIBYA AND SET THEIR MODEL OF FREOM WHICH IS WEAK AND HAS TOO MCUH LACKING IT DOES NOT CONTAIN ISLAMIC VALUES. THIS ARE WHITE CHRISTIAN VALUES MAYBE THESE ARE THE THINGS THE LIBYANS ARE FIGHTING FOR. THE UNIVERSAL VALUES OF MN STIPULATES THAT ALL OF MANKIND IS BORN FREE FROM YOUR SOULD ACCEPTS THE OXYGEN THAT IS GIVEN TO US FREELY BYTHE ALMIGHTY ANDIN HIS WIZE INTELLECT HE HAS GIVEN US LIFE ON THIS PLANET WHERE IT IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN SUTAIN LIFE BUT IN HIS GREAT WIZE INTELLECT THE UNIVERSE IS VAST AND ALL THE PLAMNETS HAVE A PURPOSE SUCH AS WE DO . WE ARE ALL CREATED TO PROVIDE SOME ASSET TO LIFE AND SOME WERE BORN NEVER TO REPENT BUT TO CREATE MISCHIEF AND BRING AS MANY AS THEY SEE TO THE LIFE ETERNAL OF DESPAIR. FOR THE RADICAL MINDED AND THEJUST THOSE WHO SEEEK FORGIVENESS AND ARE WARE THEY HAVE SINNED AGAINST "THE ALMIGHTY GOD" AND HIS CREATION THEY WILL BE FORGIVEN . BUT IN THE WIDE EXPNSE OFTHE UNIVERSE THERE ARE MANY PLACES FOR THE UNREPENTENT THEIR SOULS WILL CRAVE THE LOVE THAT WAS OFFFERD THEIR SOULS WILL CRAVE THE RIGHTREOUSNES THEY REJECTED AND THEY WILL FOR EVER FEEL THE SCORN AND THE ARROGANCE FROM HOW THEY LIVED THEIR LIVES. MANY ARE DISBELIVERS THEY LOOK FORE ALL MANNER OF WHICH THEY CAN USE TODISPROVE WHAT IS IN FACT TRUTH AND WHAT HAS BEEN REVEALED TO SUCKLINGS AND BABIES. THIS GREAT UNIVERSE WHICH HAS PAIRS OF PARENST THAT CONTINUET TO GROW NAD MULTIPLY AS WE DO AS HUMANITY.TODAY WE MUST ALL LOOK INTO OUR HEARTS AND ASK ONE THING WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE AND DEHUMANISE WHAT WE CAME AND TO FIND. OUR SOULS WERE GIVEN A BODY WHICH THE GREAT SOLOMAN SAID WAS VANITY OF ALL VANITITES WE MUST RETURN THIS BODY AFTER UTS USE. OUR GIVEN TIME IS 70 YEARS SO BE CAREFULL AND LIVE WELL. YOU CANT ATKE BACK WHAT YOU HAVE DONME BUT THERE IS FORGIVENESS ANDONT FORGET THE SAME WAY YOU JUDGE YOU WILL BE JUDGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Libya is small but still it has (had) 4.5 million people.
So why in this "popular" coup did only "a few thousand" show up up to hear Jalil(?) declare the country "liberated".
Why were the bulk of them the "child soldiers" that o'bomber supplied with drugs and guns? The same "child soldiers" that o'bomber waived protection for this year and last by refusing to impose penalities on countries using them.
Why??? Because the u.s. uses children for cannon fodder!!!!
Why??? The u.s. uses children to overthrown "unfriendly" governments. That is, those countries who think that their resources ought to be used to benefit their own people.
The u.s. did the same thing to its own children, brought in dope and guns, criminalized the youth and made certain areas unlivable so that their patrons could by the property for a song and dance.
The "Compton solution" is spreading through Africa. All of the dope that the u.s. protected so carefully in Afghanistan is coming to your children with "help" of the UN.