I dunno. I'm more likely to trust the media of a country that is free, and has tons of independent news organizations then I am a country that is headed by one guy by birth which any criticizing of him can result in being punished according to the law.
Espiecally when it's in support of one dictatorship governments like that one guy.... and the many indepenedent news orgizations have no collective reason to lie... and playing conspiracy theory guy here... WERE controlled by the democratic government (unlike the dictators media?) would if anything want to argue FOR dictators.
I'm going to say the leader of Kuwait has a bit of a more reason to lie to locals... and more power to do so.
Aside from which, even if it became fractionlized groups of warlords... there would still be decisions being made by more people then just the one guy currently. Aside from which, lack of weapons was basically the whole big trouble with the Libyian rebels side....
at the start of the war... they didn't have any tanks. Not until they got defections from the army and captured army technology. The deploying of tanks was a pretty recent thing.
As for freedom fighters buying guns on the black market... yeah, that's what they do, even the "good ones".
