Libya plans top secret burial for Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan authorities are planning secret burial for expel leader Col Muammar Gaddafi following his capture and death, the BBC understands.

Though, it appears there may be a delay in his burial, which under Islamic tradition should take place as soon as possible.

Oil minister Ali Tarhouni told Reuters that Col Gaddafi's body may be kept "for a few days".

NATO is expected to declare an end to its Libya campaign in the coming hours. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the death of Col Gaddafi meant Nato's military intervention in Libya had reached its conclusion."Clearly the operation is coming to its end," he told reporters.

Earlier, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said the Nato function would end "subject to a few transitory measures in the week to come".

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Obama says Gaddafi may wait out military assault

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi may try to stay out a no-fly zone and military attack that has hurt his armed forces, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday in an meeting with CNN.

"Gaddafi may try to hunker down and wait it out even in the face of the no-fly zone, although his forces have been dishonored," Obama said.

The U.S. president's comments official the longtime Libyan leader's staying power and the limits of a U.Napproved no-fly zone over Libya that the United States and European countries are enforce, with some Arab maintain.

U.S. officials have made comprehensible Gaddafi's ouster would be welcome save for was not the goal of the air strikes. Obama said the no-fly zone was inevitable to ensure "the people of Libya aren't beaten by their own military."

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Americans appear wary over U.S. role in Libya

Near the beginning comments online and in newspapers point to careful American support for an imperfect role in bombing Libyan air military protection except wariness over tangle the United States in an ill-defined military assignment

The United States was sluggish to act on Libya yet wise to play downward its role in a military interference, some U.S. editorials, columnist and bloggers said. They also raised concern over a apparent lack of leadership in a "war by group."

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in power seeing as a military coup in 1969, lost manages of large sections of the country in a revolution last month and his armed forces had been warfare back.

Excluding a military coalition, with France, Britain and the United States, has been firing missiles at Libyan aims for several days to insist on a no-fly zone over the country, which was permitted by the U.N. Security Council on Thursday.

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