Libya to forgive Gaddafi fighters

Libya's new rulers are ready to forgive the forces of slain leader Muammar Gaddafi who battled rebels trying to topple his autocratic regime, National Transitional Council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on Saturday.
"In Libya we are able to absorb all. Libya is for all," Abdel Jalil said in Tripoli as he launched a national reconciliation conference organised by the NTC.
"Despite what the army of the oppressor did to our cities and our villages, our brothers who fought against the rebels as the army of Gaddafi, we are ready to forgive them," he said.
The conference was attended by delegates from the major Libyan tribes , as well as from Qatar and Tunisia.
Libya's new interim Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib echoed Abdel Jalil.
Meanwhile Kib's government is under heavy pressure to disarm hundreds of former rebels who toppled Gaddafi's regime and who are now enforcing security on the streets.
Observers and human rights group have said that Libya's new rulers will have to come up with firm plans to win the trust of residents of towns such as Bani Walid and Sirte, former strongholds of Gaddafi.
The town, just 170 kilometres from the capital Tripoli, epitomises the problems the NTC must resolve, as several of its residents have often expressed desire for revenge after their homes were looted and pillaged by former rebels who ousted Gaddafi.