In a telephone interview with Al Jazeera, Waheed Burshan, president of Libya's National Transitional Council in Gharyan, responded to the escape of Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam.

Speaking from Tunis, he confirmed that Saif had been arrested, but he was unable to say how Gaddafi's son subsequently escaped from his captors.

Burshan referred to questions of "inexperienced youth" and the lack of a "structured military guard".