Sarah Topol worries that the diffusion of the dictator's stockpile during the fighting may undermine the new government:
Each brigade says it has registered its fighters’ weapons in their own books (each brigade has a binder of weapons and fighters). But the guns people bought on the black market or looted from Qaddafi stockpiles are unaccounted for. In one home in Misrata, a family showed me machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and rockets they keep wrapped in sheets, hidden under beds and sofas. So everyone still has weapons, even if there is no obvious enemy to point them at. Instead, regional rivalries are flaring up. During the military parade in Misrata, one guy in my convoy chastised a nearby vehicle for belting out songs from eastern Libya. “We’re from Misrata, why are you singing about Benghazi?” he shouted. The singers immediately changed their tune.
Daniel Serwer advocates international support to help deal with this sort of problem.
(Photo: Forces loyal to Libya's new rulers take part in a military parade organized by the municipality of Tripoli to celebrate the ouster of former leader Moamer Kadhafi on November 2, 2011. By Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images.)
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