Western powers attacking Libya have made themselves "legitimate targets" for retaliation, the son of Muammar Gaddafi has warned.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi rejected calls for his father to quit Libya as the price of peace with the rebels fighting to overthrow him.
"To tell my father to leave the country, it's a joke, he told the French TV channel TF1. "We will never surrender. We will fight. It's our country.
"We have to fight for our country and you are going to be legitimate targets for us."
Asked if he had a message for the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, one of the prime movers in the Nato offensive, Gaddafi replied: "You are not going to win. You have no chance, zero chance, to win the war here.
"If you are angry with us because we are not buying the Rafale airplanes, you should talk with us," he added, a reference to the Dassault-built French warplane that Paris had been trying to sell to Tripoli before the uprising against Gaddafi.
"If you are angry with us because oil deals are not going well, you should talk to us. Rebels will not give you anything because they are not going to win.
News of the proposal coincided with a visit to Benghazi by the Turkish foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, who recognized the rebel council as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people and promised the rebels $200 million in aid, The A.P. reported. France, Italy, Qatar and a handful of other countries have recognized the rebel leadership. Last week, France said that it had provided arms to rebels fighting in the Nafusah Mountains region.
Despite a growing list of foreign allies, the rebels have made little progress in recent months toward their goal of driving Colonel Qaddafi from power. The two sides have been deadlocked for weeks on battlefields near the eastern oil city of Brega, and in the west, outside Misurata.
The rebels have managed to drive Colonel Qaddafi’s forces back from a number of cities in the Nafusah Mountains, and on Sunday, rebel commanders, citing intercepted radio communications, said they had killed a senior general outside the city of Kiklah.
In the town of Al Rujban, Radi Ramadan, 34, said that Mr. Abdul-Jalil’s proposal “was the perfect move to save Libyan blood.” But for many other people in the mountain cities, the offer was a painful reminder of the siege by Colonel Qaddafi’s forces.
Outside a small, white house in Al Rujban, a group of refugees from some of those cities, including several neighbors from one street in the town of Gila’a, to the east of Al Rujban, said that to allow Colonel Qaddafi to stay would be to forgive his crimes: the destruction of their homes and the killing of friends and relatives.
“For months, we’ve been out of Gila’a,” said Salah Mohamed Suleiman, who sat with a cane. “He cannot stay.
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