Saif Al Islam Qaddafi Warns of Civil War: We will Fight Until Our Last Drop of Blood

Local Editor

Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi's son warned Monday in a speech broadcast that the country faces a bloody civil war if protesters refuse to accept reform offers. Addressing the people, he told them to choose between "dialogue" and "reform" or "civil war", "thousands of deaths" and "rivers of blood".

Saif Al Islam Qaddafi condemned the unprecedented uprising against his father's 41-year rule as a foreign plot, but admitted mistakes were made in a brutal crackdown and urged citizens to build a "new Libya."

"Libya is at a crossroads. If we do not agree today on reforms, we will not be mourning 84 people, but thousands of deaths, and rivers of blood will run through Libya," he said.
"We will take up arms... we will fight to the last bullet," he said. "We will destroy seditious elements. If everybody is armed, it is civil war, we will kill each other. Libya is not Egypt, it is not Tunisia," he said, adding that attempts at another "Facebook revolution" would be resisted.
"At this moment there are tanks being driven by civilians in Benghazi," he said.

He noted there are three groups that headed to the streets, the first constitutes of party and syndicate members that have clear demands of reform. The second is another of Islamists who attacked the army camps in Al Baida. The third of these groups constitutes of the popular crowds and youth who "are on drugs".

Qaddafi the son said his father "is not like Husni Mubarak or Zein Al Abidin bin Ali, because he is not a regular president, rather he is a popular leader. He also noted that "hundreds of thousands of Libyans as well as of the army will protect him until their last drop of blood."