Gaddafi has lost; but who won?

Burning debris are seen after rebels based in the capital Tripoli, following heavy fighting on 23 August attached overrun, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi Bab al-Azizya. : AFP photo

In Afghanistan and the Iraq the external forces to military success responds by exaggerating their hands. It deals with their opponents
vindictively and adopted, they would have to never beaten. You convinced themselves, who were their local allies
Representative and more effective, when they were really. It is that the ingredients are created in the heady moment of victory,
Patrick Cockburn writes the future disasters, produce

THE civil war in Libya went on longer than expected, but the fall of Tripoli came faster than. As in Kabul in 2001 and Baghdad in 2003 were there no last stand of the defeated regime, whose Anhänger appear away have melted, when they saw that defeat is inevitable.

It is indeed clear that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has lost power, it is not sure, he has won. The anti-militias, that now in the capital streaming were by a common enemy United, but not much else. The Transitional National Council in Benghazi, as the legitimate Government of Libya, of so many foreign States recognized is already of dubious legitimacy and authority.

There is another problem in the war ended. It has never been a just trial of strength between two groups of Libyans due to the crucial role of the NATO air strikes. The rebels themselves admit that their name without with 7.459 air raids on targets Pro-Gaddafi - they would be led in the air war - dead or in flight. The question therefore remains as the rebels peacefully supports can convert their foreign victory on the battlefield to a stable peace for all parties in Libya.

Precedents in Afghanistan and Iraq are not encouraging, and serve as a warning. The anti-Taliban troops in Afghanistan won military success thanks foreign air support as in Libya. You used then this temporary dominance arrogant and catastrophically establish a regime weighted, against the Pashtun community.

In the Iraq, the Americans - over confident after the easy defeat of Saddam Hussein - the Iraqi army disbanded and former members of the Baath Party excluded from jobs and makes you little choice, but to fight. Most Iraqis were glad the end of Saddam Hussein, but the battle to replace him, almost destroyed the country.

Does the same thing in Libya? In Tripoli, as in most oil States, the Government provides the most jobs and many Libyans have also under the old regime. How will they pay now for it on the losing side? The air was thick yesterday to avoid acts of vengeance with calls to premiere for its fighters. But it was only last month that the TNC Commander-in-Chief in some obscure and unexplained Act of revenge had been murdered. The rebel Cabinet was dissolved, and again not been produced, which his turns out to investigate the killing. The TNC produced guidelines for ruling country post-Gaddafi, which aims to ensure that law and order be maintained, people fed and continued public service.

It is much too early to know whether a piece of foreign-inspired wishful thinking or some beneficial effect on the development of this. The Libyan Government was a dilapidated organization in the best of times, so get everyone in the ground to a halt in its effectiveness not too flashy at first. But many of those celebrating in the streets of Tripoli and cheering on the advancing rebel columns will expect that their lives better and will be disappointed if this does not happen.

Foreign powers will likely press for steps to form a constituent Assembly of a kind to give the new Government legitimacy. It must be to create institutions, largely abolished the Colonel Gaddafi and supposedly democratic committees that monitored its quirky a-man rule in fact. This will not just be done. Long-term opponents of the regime it is difficult to loot the victory with the parts, the are their coats at the last minute.

Some groups have together was authorized by the war itself, as long at urged the edge Berber from the mountains southwest of Tripoli, the most effective fighting militia. You want to be recognized its contribution in a redistribution which makes.

Libya has several advantages over Afghanistan and Iraq. It is not a country with a great and desperate segment of the population of destitute and life on the edge of malnutrition. It must be not the same blood-soaked recent history as Afghanistan and Iraq. Never include his a-man rule in close by Saddam Hussein for savagery came for all the demonization of Colonel Gaddafi in the last six months.

In Afghanistan and the Iraq the external forces to military success responds by exaggerating their hands. She treated their opponents vindictively and it assumed that she never to been beaten. They convinced themselves that their local allies were representative and more effective, when they were really. In the heady moment of victory, it is that which produce future disasters the ingredients are created.

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CounterPunch.org, August 23. Patrick Cockburn is the author of Muqtada.

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Libya delays burial plans for Gaddafi amid uncertainty

 
Libyan NTC fighters celebrating in Sirte after their final victory against the forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi Thursday. ? Internet TRIPOLI, Oct 21 (Agencies): Libya's government has delayed Muammar Gaddafi's burial amid uncertainty about his final resting place and the circumstances of his killing.

Oil minister Ali Tarhouni said the body of the ex-leader may be kept "for a few days". Under Islamic tradition burial should take place as soon as possible.

It is unclear whether this will be in his hometown of Sirte, Misrata where the body was taken, or in the desert.

Sources said his body was being held in a refrigerated chamber somewhere outside Misrata and that the authorities wanted to run DNA tests before the burial.

The UN is seeking an inquiry into Gaddafi's death.

Libyan authorities are planning a secret burial for Gaddafi, the BBC understands.

The BBC's Caroline Hawley in Tripoli says the authorities will conduct a secret burial and there is some speculation that they might even try to bury him at sea, as al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was buried, to prevent any grave being turned into a shrine, she adds.

Meanwhile Nato is expected to declare an end to its Libya campaign in the coming hours.

Libya's leaders faced huge pressure Friday to proclaim the country's liberation and move toward democracy, amid euphoria over the killing of despot Gaddafi under still murky circumstances.

As news broke of the death of Gaddafi, his son Mutassim and other top regime figures during the fall of his hometown Sirte, the NTC held off on a promised declaration that the country was finally freed.

NTC leaders had said that once Sirte was in the hands of their fighters, they would announce the formation of an interim government to oversee drawing up a new constitution and holding free elections after four decades of dictatorship.

But with another Gaddafi son-longtime heir-apparent Seif al-Islam-still unaccounted for, NTC leaders waited, despite jubilation in towns across the country at the news that the once-all powerful tyrant was dead.

Interim premier Mahmud Jibril said Seif al-Islam was believed to be pinned down in a village near Sirte.

Gaddafi's body was laid out overnight in a private residence in Misrata-Libya's third-largest city, which his forces devastated in a protracted siege that proved to be one of the turning points of the eight-month uprising, an AFP correspondent reported.

Meanwhile, questions are mounting as to exactly what happened in Gaddafi's last moments following his capture.

Officials have denied he was executed.

Acting Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said Gaddafi had been shot in the head in an exchange of fire between Gaddafi loyalists and NTC fighters following his capture in his hometown of Sirte

Video footage suggests he was dragged through the streets.

An NTC fighter told the BBC he found the former Libyan leader hiding in a drainage pipe and he had begged him not to shoot.

The fighter showed reporters a golden pistol he said he had taken from Col Gaddafi.

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