The Taliban is beginning to pick up on a growing theme in the media - that al Qaeda is in fact a significant element of the rebel force - and are ginning up a disinformation campaign to convince us that we should be attacking Gaddafi because the Taliban "supports" Gaddafi. It's the oldest trick in the book. We don't do that kind of dissembling much because we're Americans. Muslims will say whatever seems convenient at the moment.
The one thing that sticks out in my mind is the prevalence of variants of the burka among the female Libyan population, despite the fact that Gaddafi doesn't actually require it. The following West Point chart confirms my initial impression - that Libyan society is much more Islamist than the press either knows about or lets on:
Just as the Saudi Royal Family keeps a lid on Islamism in Saudi Arabia by parroting many of its shibboleths, Gaddafi more or less performs the same function in Libya. But to have al Qaeda actually in power in Libya would be a serious problem.