Under the younger Kabila, foreign forces gradually departed and the Congolese parties managed to reach an agreement for a transitional national government that included the three major belligerent groups, a number of smaller ex-rebel movements and representatives of civil society and the political opposition.
As part of such an accommodation, the Islamists would probably have to agree not to impose sharia law on Somalia, at any rate under a transitional government of national unity.
The bloom came off that false rose on Sunday when Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council, repeatedly declared his government's fealty to shariah, Islam's brutally repressive, totalitarian political-military-legal doctrine.
Separately the new justice minister in Tripoli who succeeded Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, the leader of the Benghazi-based temporary government known as the Interim Transitional National Council, also addressed reporters Saturday.
The next day, the opposition rejected the idea of a government of national unity, but said that it remains committed to negotiations towards a transitional government, provided the violence and the persecution of MDC leaders and supporters stop, political prisoners are released, militia bases and torture camps are disbanded, and security forces remain neutral.
The rebels accuse Mr Deby of being a dictator and say they want to organise a national forum that will lead to a transitional government and on to democratic elections.
Once seated, the new national assembly will be tasked with appointing a transitional government and crafting a constitution.
It has rejected the idea of a government of national unity, but advocates a transitional administration based on the results of the first round of voting on March 29th which it won leading towards fresh elections.
During question time in the Lords on 23 November 2011, Lord Selkirk of Douglas asked the government whether it would continue to make representations to the National Transitional Council of Libya to make available any evidence on the attack to the Lord Advocate and the Scottish police.
Allawi, laying out his government's security, economic, and political aspirations, told members of Congress elections for a transitional national assembly will be held in January, as scheduled.
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