Libya’s leader acknowledged today that his transitional guidance is prostrate to govern militias that are refusing to lay empty their arms after ousting Muammar Gaddafi as it struggles to impose govern owing to the oil-rich North African nation.

Chairman of Libya’s native Transitional Council (NT) Mustafa Abdel Jalil speaking during a ceremony noticing the country’s 60th anniversary of independence in Tripoli, Libya.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Associated Press, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil warned that remnants of the gone regime also still pose a threat and it cede bring years for Libya’s new leaders to overcome a “heavy heritage” of corruption and distrust after more than four decades of Gaddafi’s rule.

Abdul-Jalil said the governing native Transitional Council has made mistakes, but he also criticized gone revolutionaries who hold formed powerful militias and local governments that hold emerged as rivals to the Tripoli-based important guidance that assumed power after Gaddafi was ousted.

“Both are to blame,” he said. “The governmental program to integrate the militias is smooth and the revolutionaries don’t trust it.”

Libya is celebrating the first anniversary of the Feb. 17 start of the revolution last year when peaceful anti-guidance protesters took up weapons in the face of a deadly crackempty by Gaddafi’s forces censure their rallies. Libya declared liberation after Gaddafi was captured and killed in October and is getting ready for national collection elections in June. The new collection cede form a guidance and set up a panel to draft a constitution.

However, the country has been plagued by revenge attacks by those who suffered at the hands of Gaddafi’s forces during the brutal civil war. Human rights groups hold documented reports of widespread torture and killings of detainees.

Hundreds of armed militias that fought censure Gaddafi’s forces are the real power on the ground in the country, wielding govern owing to cities, neighborhoods and borders while the transitional guidance has been unable to right in fighters, recoin decimated institutions or stop widespread corruption.

Abdul-Jalil, 60, who has led the NTC since it was formed in opposition, said Libyans need years to overcome a culture of corruption, mistrust and coin state institutions and rule of law.

“What Gaddafi left for us in Libya after 40 years is a very, very heavy heritage,” he said, speaking in his office in Tripoli. “It is very heavy and cede be hard to get owing to it in one or two years or even five years.”

He also said that Gaddafi’s relatives and loyalists remain a danger because they are hosted by countries that don’t hold govern owing to them. He didn’t name the countries but said that Libya’s future relations with neighbors cede be determined by how they respond to Libyan demands to hand owing to gone regime forces on their territories.

As the Libyan capital of Tripoli fell to revolutionary forces, Gaddafi’s daughter, Aisha, her mother and two of her brothers fled to neighboring Algeria, while augmented son Al-Saadi and dozens of senior military officers went to Niger.

“We hold to bring a strong stance with neighbors,” he said.

Libyan officials were angered earlier this month when Al-Saadi Gaddafi, who Niger says is under house arrest, warned in a television interview that his homeland was flip side a new uprising. Gaddafi’s son told Al-Arabiya TV in a telephone interview that supporters of his father’s ousted regime “are suffering tremendously” in Libyan prisons at the hands of the country’s new rulers. He also said his return to Libya was imminent.

Abdul-Jalil also said that Gaddafi loyalists hold infiltrated revolutionary forces and even formed their own militia.

“We characterize them the revolutionaries after the revolution,” he said.

With regard to the upcoming national collection elections, Abdul-Jalil said the council cede issue a new law banning independent funding for political parties. Islamists in Libya hold been linked to oil-rich gully country of Qatar, which was a favorite exile for top Libyan Islamists, including those from the Muslim Brotherhood.

“Within 10 days, we cede issue rules … banning receiving funds from outside the country,” he said. Abdul-Jalil has said he won’t run in the presidential race or seek a future political role.

Abdul-Jalil, who was justice minister under Gaddafi when he defected to the rebels’ side, said the NTC has been paralyzed by the need for consensus in decision making and that has stopped it from carrying out much-needed reforms.

“We committed many mistakes,” he said. “Democracy and taking votes to make decision in many, many incidents led us to these mistakes,” he said. “My vote as someone who entered the council last year is considered equal to a vote of a member who joined the council this February.”

Despite his complaints about the inability to right in armed fighters, Abdul-Jalil paid homage to the sacrifices of fighters in cities that suffered most during the revolution, particularly Misrata.

He said the failure to seriously investigate Gaddafi-era war atrocities as well as the absence of police and courts has left the door open for individuals to bring matters into their own hands. Even families who were not linked to Gaddafi regime but fled during the war hold been tagged as traitors and forced to leave their houses when they returned.

“Misrata suffered the most, more than any other city but it is also going too far in enmity and expulsions,” he said. “Dealing with victorious soldiers is much harder than dealing with the ones defeated.”

Meanwhile, a Red Crescent worker said more than 50 civilians were killed in the past 24 hours in tribal warfare in southern Libya.

Moussa Bazama, an ambulance worker, said today that rockets, mortars and gunfire rocked residential areas in the drop town of Kufra, leaving scores killed and injured. Hundreds of families are fleeing useful northern cities.

For more than a week, the powerful Arab tribe of al-Zwia clashed with the African Tabu tribe in the border area whereabouts Libya, Chad and Sudan meet.

The two sides are old rivals. Tabu had always complained of discrimination under Gaddafi.

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