I largely agree, though I did hear one particularly ironic statement from an NTC official along the lines of 'We will give Gaddafi a fair trial, and then he will be killed by firing squad'. On the issue of the CIA/MI6, it goes much deeper than being the 'lesser of two evils'. Our intelligence agencies encouraged Gaddafi to torture because it was useful to us, and then we scorn him for it (admittedly, he did it long before and would have done it anyway, but it becomes contradictory after our encouragement of such acts). I think there is a difference between exchanging intelligence and whatnot and using Libyan prisons as a sort of Guantánamo Bay in Africa. MI6 and the CIA need to face up to this, apologise, and move on. @Dizzle: not to mention the situation in Bani Walid, Sabha and a few other desert towns. Let's hope that backing the rebels doesn't come back to bite us in the ass again. Just like Osama and Saddam.