Fresh reports have indicated that Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) plans to appoint an interim Prime Minister who will establish a cabinet for the next one month.
This follows the NTC’s expected Liberation Day to be celebrated this weekend in the Eastern City of Benghazi where rebellion that has overthrown the deceased Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s regime started.
In Brussels, Belgium NATO officials were scheduled to meet Yesterday to discuss their next steps after a military campaign that included thousands of airstrikes in Libya including one said to have contributed to Gaddafi’s capture and subsequent death on Thursday.
While Gaddafi’s family seeks a more respected burial- in sorrow, thousands of Libyans have been overjoyed over his downfall taking picture of his body and authorities had to transfer his body to a city commercial fridge as his burial waits.
Libya’s interim government, the National Transitional Council, has said Gadhafi’s burial will be delayed for a few days to allow International Criminal Court officials to check the body in Misrata if they choose to do so.
French president Nicolous Sarkozi said no one should rejoice over anyone’s death much as he/she could have done terrible things.
According to CNN, the international community reflected on the end of the Gaddafi regime quoting US president Barack Obama saying;
“Our military played a critical role in shaping a situation on the ground in which the Libyan people can build its own future,” President Barack Obama said Friday, referring to the U.S. role in the NATO operation in Libya.
The American based media empire-CNN also reported that the United Nations and two major human rights groups has called for an investigation into the death of Muammar Gaddafi amid questions over the final moments of the late Libyan strongman’s life.
“There seem to be four or five different versions of how he died,” the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement. “More details are needed to ascertain whether he was killed in the fighting or after his capture.”
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