May 23, 2012

Local commander made Libya defence minister – NTC source

Local commander made Libya defence minister – NTC source

photoTRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) has appointed as new defence minister the local commander whose forces captured Muammar Gaddafi’s son at the weekend, an NTC source told Reuters on Tuesday. Osama Al-Juwali, head of the military council in Zintan, was given the defence job as part of a cabinet line-up in which secularist liberals were dominant and which had no key roles for the Islamists who have been making a bid for power since Gaddafi’s fall. …