Muammar Gaddafi has threatened to send hundreds of Libyans to launch attacks in Europe in revenge for the NATO-led military campaign against him.
In a televised speech, the Libyan leader said that 'hundreds of Libyans will martyr in Europe. I told you it is eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. But we will give them a chance to come back to their senses.'
Gaddafi, whose forces have been battling rebel fighters increasingly encroaching on his territory and NATO warplanes, was speaking in the desert town of Sabha, about 800km south of Tripoli.
'You will regret it, NATO, when the war moves to Europe,' he said, adding that the Canary Islands, Sicily, other Mediterranean islands, as well as Andalusia in southern Spain were Arab lands that should be liberated.
Muammar Gaddafi said that 'the Libyan people have no problem, the colonial powers are the ones who have a problem. They want to control our oil. They are jealous because God gave us the gift of oil.'
