Libyan uprising a 'foreign plot': Kadhafi son
AFP
CAIRO- Saif al-Islam Kadhafi, the son of strongman Moamer Kadhafi, said Monday that Libya was on the verge of civil war and branded the unprecedented protests against his father's rule a foreign plot.
Blaming Arab and African expatriates of fomenting unrest in the country, he said the violence was aimed at installing Islamist rule, in a speech on national television.
In the tough-talking, finger-wagging speech, Kadhafi's son blamed foreign media of inflating the death toll but warned that any uprising would be ruthlessly suppressed.
"Libya is not Egypt, it is not Tunisia. There are no political parties in 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."
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