Libyas new leaders set for Tripoli move

Libyas new leaders said they will move to Tripoli next week after their forces defeated Moamer Gaddafi and they won wide international support for plans to bring democratic rule.We will go to Tripoli next week. Tripoli is our capital, National Transitional Council (NTC) chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil told dignitaries and tribesmen in the eastern city of Benghazi.Three days after overrunning Tripoli, the NTC announced on August 26 plans to transfer its executive branch to the Libyan capital, but said the whole of the council and its chair would only move once security was guaranteed.Abdel Jalils statement came after fallen strongman Gaddafi warned of a lengthy and widespread guerrilla war in messages broadcast from his unknown hideout.In Tripoli, thousands of people, most of them women, gathered in Martyrs Square in a show of support for the new leadership, also raising US and French flags while mocking Gaddafi by wearing curly wigs.We will win or we will die and Libya is one and united, read their banners.Bolstered by promises made at a conference in Paris on Thursday of billions of dollars in cash from unfrozen assets of the Gaddafi regime, the NTC prepared to implement a roadmap for bringing democracy to Libya.A body tasked with drafting a constitution should be elected within eight months and a government within 20 months, NTC representative in Britain Guma al-Gamaty told the BBC on Friday.For the first eight months the NTC would lead Libya, during which a council of about 200 people should have been directly elected, Gamaty said, referring to plans drawn up in March and refined last month.The new leadership was also boosted on the economic front, with the weekly Middle East Economic Survey reporting Libya could at least partially resume crude oil output and refining within days.His foes say Gaddafi and his son Seif al-Islam may be in Bani Walid, southeast of the capital and still held by loyalist troops, where some clashes have taken place.But the NTC has put its assault on the centres still controlled by pro-Gaddafi forces, in particular his hometown of Sirte, on hold until September 10 to try to negotiate a peaceful end to the six-and-a-half month conflict.