Libyan Defense Minister Osama Juili said Wednesday that the oasis town of Bani Walid was under government control as he toured the former Moammar Gadhafi bastion days after deadly clashes.

"The town is in the control of the Libyan government," Juili told reporters. "The problem that started has been resolved," he added, referring to clashes on Monday in which at least five people died.

Egyptian authorities grounded a Libyan Airlines flight on Wednesday after an attendant found a suspected bomb in a toilet on the aircraft, airport officials told Agence France Presse.

Tripoli-bound flight 203 was due to leave Cairo International Airport when a member of the cabin crew found "a metal object" in one of the plane's toilets shortly before take-off.

President Barack Obama hailed the demise of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and warned Syria's Bashar Assad his regime's days were numbered Tuesday as he vowed enduring U.S. support for the ideals of the Arab Spring.

"As the tide of war recedes, a wave of change has washed across the Middle East and North Africa, from Tunis to Cairo; from Sanaa to Tripoli," Obama said in his annual State of the Union address in Congress.

Libya's interim government met on Tuesday to discuss the deadly clashes in the former regime's bastion of Bani Walid as sources said calm returned to the town.

"The government is in a meeting to discuss the issue of Bani Walid," a source in the administration of Prime Minister Abdul Rahim al-Kib told Agence France Presse.

Diehard supporters of slain Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi seized control Monday of Bani Walid in a brazen attack on his one-time bastion that killed five people, officials told Agence France Presse.

The assault on a base of former rebels who helped oust Gadhafi was the first major offensive launched by his loyalists since the "liberation" of Libya on October 23, shortly after the fall of Bani Walid.

The International Criminal Court denied Monday that it had agreed that Seif al-Islam, slain Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's most prominent son, be tried in Libya.

"The ICC has made no decision on this matter," court spokesman Fadi el-Abdallah told Agence France Presse in response to a claim by Libya's Justice Minister Ali H'mida Ashur that Seif would be judged by a Libyan court.

At least one person was killed in an overnight gunbattle between a former prisoner and ex-rebel fighters in the Libyan capital, a hospital official and local residents said on Monday.

"A man was killed and five others were wounded, including one who is now in a coma," an official at Tripoli's central hospital said.

Libya's ruling National Transitional Council on Sunday postponed the adoption of a new election law which it discussed at a meeting, a council member told Agence France Presse.

NTC member Abdul Razzaq al-Arabi said the adoption of the election law was postponed to January 28.

Abdul Hafiz Ghoga, the deputy head of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council, told Agence France Presse on Sunday that he is resigning from his post.

"My resignation shows that the NTC is a tribune for fighting for a cause and not a governing body. We are not looking for posts," he said.

Angry protesters stormed the offices of Libya's National Transitional Council in the eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday after besieging the building for hours, an NTC member told Agence France Presse.

"The demonstrators attacked the building and turned NTC offices upside down," the official said on condition of anonymity.