"Not an encouraging start to the new regime in my view ... !!"

Gaddafi was not killed by the "regime", he was killed by an over enthusiastic 18 year old (as is being reported). The "regime", actually the NTC, does not endorse this act, it has stated that it would have preferred that he had been taken alive. Worse things were done in other revolutions like in France for instance and they turned out to be, more or less, civilized. Give the Libyan people a chance to, hopefully, unite their country by common cause rather than by oppression.