(CBS News)
Libya's interim leaders are moving to put the war-torn country back together. A declaration of liberation is expected Sunday.
On Saturday acting Prime Minister Makhmoud Jibril resigned, clearing the way for an interim government and elections. CBS News Elizabeth Palmer in Tripoli has the latest.
Just before stepping down, Libya's interim prime minister also set an ambitious deadline for elections.
"The first election after the liberating of the country, which should take place today, should be within a period of eight months, maximum," he said.
Libyans line up to view Muammar Qaddafi's body at a shopping centre in Misrata, Libya, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011.
(Credit: AP/Manu Brabo)Before Jibril left office, he along with thousands of other Libyans went to a shopping center in the city of Misrata where Col. Muammar Qaddafi's corpse was on public display for the second day in a row -- laid out by the rebel fighters who caught him.
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Most of the spectators had no sympathy.
"He killed my brother, my cousin, he raped my friends, he burned my family's house," said a woman.
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