The chairman of the transitional council, Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, was scheduled to return to Tripoli on Wednesday, where he was expected to pressure militias from Zintan, Misurata and other towns to either withdraw to the outskirts of the capital or go home, according to a council official.
It is up to the new ruling authorities, led by the avuncular chairman of the transitional national council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, to balance the two.The fledgling government's behaviour in Tripoli and elsewhere suggests that it will go out of its way to avoid undue triumphalism.
Rebel forces continued to observe the one-week extension given to Bani Walid to surrender, and the rebels' acting minister of defense, Jalal al-Dghaili, said talks with supporters of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi there were continuing, according to the chairman of the transitional council's media committee, Jalil Elgallal.
Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, the chairman of Libya's transitional government, who visited Surt on Tuesday, told Reuters that the fighters needed "two more days" to capture the city.
Maurice Lindsay, the club's chairman, has been given "transitional relief" to allow him to trim the biggest wage bill in the game over a two-year period.
He was also cautious in reacting to an apparent offer of amnesty for Qaddafi officials made over the weekend by Mustapha Abdul Jalil, the chairman of the rebel Transitional National Council — another attempt to quickly end the conflict.
In a news conference last week, Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, chairman of Libya's Transitional National Council — the civilian leadership of the former rebels — said the new government would even give its Western backers some "priority" in access to Libyan business.
However, the opposition leader, Mustapha Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the rebel Transitional National Council, released a statement on Monday claiming his hypothetical remarks in an interview with the Reuters news agency had been misconstrued as a current policy position.
Mr. Jibril is the prime minister of the rebels' Transitional National Council; he and the council's chairman, Mustafa Abdel- Jalil, laid out the new government's need for reconstruction aid and technical assistance.
Lodewijk J. R. de Vink, the chairman of Warner-Lambert, was offered a transitional role, but as of yesterday it was not clear if he would accept.
