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2011-08-27 — guardian.co.uk
Now for the politics of the revolution, which promise to be complicated, fraught and messy. The National Transitional Council felt confident enough that the former regime was crushed to announce that it would move from Benghazi to Tripoli this weekend.
But the council may struggle to establish its credibility there. It is already viewed with scepticism by many rebel fighters because of its disastrous early handling of the war and it has been all but invisible to many Libyans even in the revolutionary stronghold of Benghazi. Crucial decisions have been made behind closed doors and barely explained to the public. Most members of the council are unknown to the broader population.
The Western powers have "bought" Libya. The question now: is it broken? I.e., can the rebel factions get along; can they govern; will they express the requisite fealty to Western interests; will the "al Qaeda" problem get better or worse, etc. etc.? This will be interesting, to say the least, considering that Ghaddafi was already quite submissive to the West (that had been his major transformation in the last few years).
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