Libya will hold elections in eight months and Muammar Gaddafi will be tried in the country, opposition leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said in comments published today. "In eight months we will hold legislative and presidential elections. The whereabouts of Libyan strongman Colonel Gaddafi remained unknown Wednesday as the rebels overran his Tripoli compound. The rebel leader said that the mass of opinion within the NTC was that Gaddafi and his cohorts should eventually be judged "in a fair trial, but it must take place in Libya." He will stay in the memory only for the crimes, the arrests and the political assassinations he carried out," he added.

Source: Libya Today February 29, 2024 13:22 UTC