They wouldn't want Gadafi to stay alive, he knows, and was involved in, way too many secret operations and policies they carried out in the region. They wouldn't want a Gadafi-leaks on their hands. I'm not sure that's the plan in Libya. Libya is simply a group of powerful tribes, a number of them united to take out Gadafi, but when it comes to power, each tribe will want the throne for itself. I believe a civil war is the plan for the oil-rich country; then st.NATO can descend in a heavenly manner to guide the poor ignorant people to the so-called freedom, while of course "guiding" their oil to europe and USA. What's funny is that Arabs have the worst memory I've ever seen, forgetting that the tyrants they just overthrew practically ruled in the name of the capitalist western leaders (or at least with their full blessing and support), and are now allying themselves with the same leaders. The people true will is doomed to be drowned by the western influence. I'm sorry, did I say funny? I meant shameful and frustrating.