Tripoli, Sept 9 (ANI): Libya's new Prime Minister, Mahmoud Jibril, has said rebel leaders not to start "political games" now, as the country's civil war is not over yet.
Jibril, whose formal title is Chief Executive of the National Transitional Council, spoke publicly for the first time in Tripoli since rebel forces seized it from the Gaddafi regime last month.
"Our biggest challenge is still ahead. The battle of liberation is not finished," The Telegraph quoted him, as saying.
He threatened to step down if the rebels did not unite around the mission to defeat the regime remnants.
Jibril, who was former planning and economy minister under Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, already has many enemies in the "new Libya", and has been criticized for spending much of the last month meeting foreign leaders abroad had attracted much criticism, including from his own NTC colleagues.
Nevertheless, he appeared in Tripoli to warn the rebels that they should stick together while Gaddafi forces still control large parts of the country.
Figures suggest that an estimated 30,000 people had already been killed in the conflict.
Gaddafi had yesterday made a phone call to a local TV station, vowing to defeat the rebels and NATO, as a home video emerges of him playing with his family. He said he was not giving up and that the "resistance against the rats" would be escalated.
"The youths are now ready to escalate the resistance against the 'rats' (rebels) in Tripoli and to finish off the mercenaries. We will defeat NATO...and NATO is rejected by the Libyan people," Gaddafi added. (ANI)
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