Give us time, cash and arms

摘要

Six weeks after the opposition rose up against the Qaddafirigime,a de factor rebel government is taking shape. The so-called Interim National Council has gently sidelined its bumbling head, Mustafa Abd-el Jalil, while letting him keep his title of president. Instead, an "executive committee", whose members are American-trained and experienced in running Libya, has taken up the reins. The de facto prime minister, Mahmoud Jibril, is an American-trained politics professor who, until he resigned last year, ran Libya's National Planning Council, which managed the economy with the colonel's son, Seif al-Islam Qaddafi.