What Does the Libyan Opposition Want? by Yoshie Furuhashi http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/furuhashi270211.html

What might be the politico-economic philosophy of the interim government? The Gaddafi regime's neoliberal turn is well known, and the defectors will probably bring that bent with them. As for the opposition in exile, the following excerpt from a report http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0194/9401050.htm   on a 1994 conference of Libyan exiles including the NFSL, hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, may give us a clue of their orientation: "Most participants argued for privatization and a strong private sector economy. . . . [Economist Misbah] Oreibi warned that many of the big public sector enterprises will simply have to be shut down and the losses absorbed because they will never be profitable." It is hard not to conclude that the marriage of old exiles and recent defectors is likely to result in a doubly neoliberal offspring.

[1 By the way, the "Crown Prince" of Libya is now represented by the same PR agency as the King of Bahrain: Bell Pottinger, a Tory firm in Britain, founded by a friend of Lady Thatcher's. Among its previous clients was the Libyan Economic Development Board led by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. Just as this charmed company has profited from both sides of the current Libyan political divide, so will the empire, most probably, however this conflict shakes out, since it has wisely invested in both camps.