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As Libya’s rebel fighters push west, retaking towns they lost to government forces a week earlier, opposition representatives in Benghazi are trying to form a government-in-waiting.
The task is a difficult and delicate one, being handled by an elite group of Libyans, many of whom have returned from exile.
They have to contend with everything from poor communications to the sensitivities of those Libyans from all over the country who have lived through the Qadhafi regime.
At present, the official voice of Libya’s opposition rests with the so-called Provisional Transitional National Council (PTNC), a group of 31 members representing the country’s major cities and towns.
Of the 31, the names of only 13 have been publicly revealed: council spokesmen argue it is still too dangerous to identify members in areas still controlled by Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi.
Even Mustapha Abdul-Jalil, the soft-spoken former justice minister who heads up the council, is in hiding amid fears for his safety. His number two, Abdul Hafiz Ghoqa, acts as the official spokesman for the council.
Reporting to the council is a collection of committees responsible for keeping rebel-held cities running.
“We realised that we needed to have committees that could organise things,” said Iman Bugaighis, an orthodontist who is now a member of the council’s media
committee.

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