(Guardian-UK) Peter Beaumont - Concern has been mounting that Qatar is bypassing an internationally agreed assistance strategy to Libya. Rather than supporting the NTC, Qatar has chosen to back the Islamist head of Tripoli's military council, Abdul-Aziz Belhaj, and Libyan cleric Sheikh Ali Salabi, who resides in Doha. There has been growing friction between Salabi and the NTC's interim prime minister, Mahmoud Jibril.
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