Post-Gaddafi Libya under pressure to restore order

Racing to fill a power vacuum and prevent a descent into lawlessness, Libya is to proclaim its war over on Sunday and start building the ballot box democracy Muammar Gaddafi once saw as fit for “donkeys”.

Tens of thousands who before this year’s revolt had known nothing but Gaddafi’s all-powerful police state are due to pack a square in the second city Benghazi to hear interim government leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil announce the “liberation” of Libya.

The announcement was expected at about 1400 GMT.

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