'Gaddafi was not killed by the "regime", he was killed by an over enthusiastic 18 year old'

This, on more than one level, sums up the problem. First of all this ignores the fate of Mutassim Ghadaffi, who by all accounts was taken into custody by the rebel forces (a video of him healthy and smoking in a cell was circulated on Youtube) but somehow someone, we assume over-enthusiastic, wandered in and shot him.

Which shows another level of the problem, 'the rebels' are basically a large number of young people, untrained and undisciplined but armed to the teeth, who have just come out of an intense, bloody and brutal battle and a committee, with apparently not all that much control over their fighters.

Not a recipe for a smooth transition to a new state.