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Libya's NTC chief flies to Tripoli: AFP

AFP , Saturday 10 Sep 2011

Mustafa Adel Jalil, the head of the Libyan National Transitional Council, visits Tripoli for true first time since rebels took the city from Gaddafi forces

The head of Libya's new leadership, National Transitional Council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil, flew Saturday to Tripoli for his first visit since rebel fighters seized the capital and ousted Muammar Gaddafi, an AFP correspondent said.

Abdel Jalil told AFP his visit to Tripoli from NTC headquarters in Benghazi was "temporary" and that the council he heads would be transferred to Tripoli "after the (full) liberation" of the country.

"Yes, God willing," he replied when asked if he was flying to Tripoli as he boarded a plane in the country's second largest city, Benghazi, in the east.

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