Fresh start for Libya? Hopes ride on new wheeler-dealer leader.

After seven years of civil war, Libyans have finally found a leader to head a united government and end their country’s chaos.

He is not a man of principle, standing above the fray. Rather he is a wheeler-dealer billionaire businessman, tarnished by corruption claims and past ties to ousted dictator Muammar Qaddafi.

Still, Libyans – wearied by years of turmoil – are cautiously putting their hopes in him.

They are ready today to embrace someone who can cut deals and begin to rebuild. And their amenable, glad-handing new prime minister is set to offer Libyans something they have not seen for much of the past decade: modest progress.