The head of Libya's rebel government says Muammar Gadhafi will be tried in Libya and not at the International Criminal Court in the Hague if he is captured alive. He added that the rebels' National Transitional Council is doing its best to avoid bloodshed as its fighters attempt to quash the remaining loyalist resistance.

Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Head of National Transitional Council, said, "The crimes that Gaddafi committed against his people locally before the 17th of February are enough to bring him to trial for any other crimes he committed after the 17th of February. Libya has not signed the Rome agreement and the ICC's justice is a complementary justice, as the local judicial system is the one responsible for this."