support, and it has been difficult to organize and consolidate this movement. libya s a small country, just between 7 and 8 million people. very large in space. most of it desert. so to consolidate leadership has proven to be a major challenge. also, people should understand how disorganized this country was before. it was it didn t function like any other country in the world. it has been for 41 years a cult of personality built around gadhafi. so there weren t normal institutions. even in this country it has no embassies, for example, because it believes in arab solidarity. so foreign embassies are called brotherhood offices. just the name of libya itself is a made-up, fictitious thing. it is technically called the great arab socialist people s libyan jamahariya. and jamahariya is a word gadhafi invented himself combining the word for people and combining