A new era ... a Libyan Rebel fighter yells anti-Gaddafi slogans as he celebrates in the streets of Tripoli. Photo: Getty Images
TRIPOLI: Libya's new leaders have won huge international support for their plans to rebuild the war-shattered country but face threats of a long guerilla campaign from the defeated strongman Muammar Gaddafi.
Boosted by promises of billions of dollars in cash from unfrozen assets of the Gaddafi regime, the rebel National Transitional Council prepared to put into practice a plan for bringing democracy to Libya.
A council that would draft a constitution for Libya should be elected within eight months and a president should be in place within 20 months, the NTC's representative in Britain, Guma al-Gamaty, told the BBC yesterday.
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Mr Gamaty said the process of transition was already under way and the NTC would move to Tripoli from its original base in Benghazi within a few days.
For the first eight months, the council would lead Libya, at the end of which time a council of about 200 people should have been directly elected, he said, referring to plans drawn up in March and refined last month.
Within a year of the council being put in place, final parliamentary and presidential elections should take place.
A defiant audio recording from Colonel Gaddafi emerged during the conference.
Broadcast on a Syrian-owned network, Colonel Gaddafi said: ''We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting.''
Agence France-Presse, Guardian News & Media
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