Libya's interim government will hand the body of slain despot Moammar Gadhafi to his relatives after consulting with them on the location of his burial, a senior government advisor said on Sunday.

"The decision has been taken to hand him over to his extended family, because none of his immediate family are present at this moment," Ahmed Jibril told Agence France Presse.

Britain's new Defense Secretary Philip Hammond said Sunday that the reputation of Libya's new leaders had been "stained" by the killing of ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Hammond said he would like to see an investigation into the death of Gadhafi, who was captured alive during the fall of his hometown Sirte on Thursday.

A Lebanese delegation headed to Libya on Sunday to meet with National Transitional Council officials to unveil the fate of missing Imam Moussa al-Sadr, the National News Agency reported.

The delegation includes Director-General of the Ministry of the Displaced Haitham Joumaa and Judge Hassan Shami. It is expected to discuss the latest investigations undertaken by the NTC to unveil al-Sadr’s fate.

Libya's former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, wanted by the International Criminal Court, has been spotted in northern Niger, a government source in the capital Niamey said Saturday.

"The presence of Abdullah al Senussi has been indicated in the far north of Niger" near the border with Libya, the source told AFP.

Military commanders in the Libyan city of Misrata said Saturday that no post-mortem would be carried out on the body of Moammar Gadhafi despite concerns over how the ousted strongman died.

"There will be no post-mortem today, nor any day," Misrata military council spokesman Fathi al-Bashaagha told AFP.

The death of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has ended the possibility of persecuting him in Lebanon over his alleged role in the disappearance of Imam Moussa al-Sadr, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Saturday.

Lebanese judicial sources told the daily that Lebanon’s judicial council will follow up on the matter through the necessary diplomatic means and concerned ministries in order to eventually drop the case against Gadhafi.

Faced with suspicions of an execution by a lynch mob, the order that "nobody here killed Gadhafi" has gone around to the fighters who captured alive the ex-strongman of Libya.

The fighters at a farm on the outskirts of the city of Misrata that serves as their al-Ghiran brigade base proudly exhibit the ousted leader's black boots, gold-plated gun and beige scarf.

NATO plans to end its seven-month air and sea mission in Libya on October 31, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Friday.

"Our operations are close to completion," Rasmussen said after lengthy talks with ambassadors from the 28-member alliance. There is "a preliminary agreement on the 31st of October."

Hizbullah on Friday congratulated Libyan revolutionaries on the capture and death of Moammar Gadhafi a day earlier on the outskirts of his hometown Sirte.

"Hizbullah congratulates the people of Libya on turning the page on more than four decades of tyrannical rule," read a statement released by the group.

The United States on Friday urged Libyan's interim leaders to provide "a transparent account" of the death of strongman Moammar Gadhafi.

The National Transitional Council "has already been working to determine the precise cause and circumstances of Gadhafi’s death and we obviously urge them to do so in an open and transparent manner as we move forward," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.