Libya Results Seen to Break Islamist Wave.

TRIPOLI, Libya -- A coalition led by a Western-educated political scientist appeared on Sunday to be beating its Islamist rivals in Libya's first election after Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, breaking an Islamist wave that swept across neighboring Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings. The preliminary results, characterized by independent monitors and party representatives who witnessed the vote count for a new national assembly, reflect in part the well-known name and tribal connections of the coalition's founder, Mahmoud Jibril. He is the former interim prime minister who helped lead the de facto rebel government in Benghazi, and he is also a member of Libya's most populous tribe, the Warfalla. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]