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As Gaddafi's fantasyland Jamahiriya (state of the masses) crumbles under the rebel assault, who are likely to emerge as the legitimate faces of the new nascent provisional government of Libya? Tonight, the executive members of the provisional revolutionary authority aka The Transitional National Council, or, a tad more accurately, the National Transitional Council (NTC) arrived from their redoubt in Benghazi to Tripoli to assume command of the capital and the war-ravaged nation. Their momentous arrival in Tripoli occurs against the backdrop of blackouts, food and medicine shortages, lawlessness, and continued combat raging in pockets throughout the capital, all the meanwhile a defiant Gaddafi continues to broadcast messages decrying the rebels. It is an understatement that the NTC has its work cut out for it. Libya's future will greatly depend on this group of Libyans united in their opposition to the regime, but incipiently divided by tribal, geographic, ethnic and religious divisions which surely will emerge in the days ahead.