What Peter Laban said (twice).

The NTC is a fractious (and already fragmenting) coalition of right-minded people, impetuous youth, opportunists and the full moderate-to-extremist spectrum of Muslims.

Unlike in some other north African and Arab countries, many in Libya are well educated and had comfortable lives before the war. Among them, and among muslims both in and beyond Libya, are very many who were deeply offended by the aftermath of Gadaffi's capture, not least the treatment of his corpse up to and including burial.

For people who like to trough out on vengeance, not a few of whom on this forum live in a country where within living memory innocent people were variously and publicly hanged and burnt to death, the manner of Gadaffi's demise will have been immensely satisfying - reflective of precisely the reptilean brainpower that allows lynchmob law to prosper.

They know little about life under Gadaffi's regime except what they have been told by their western leaders (a story which was shamelessly reversed from time to time to reflect the west's immediate interests) and don't care much what kind of chance the new Libya will have after this catastrophic start.