Gaddafi claims: ‘West only wants our oil’

Daily Mail
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

As Libya teeters on the brink of full-scale civil war Colonel Gaddafi today said there was a conspiracy to get of Libyan oil as he again pledged to fight to the last.

‘There is a conspiracy to control the Libyan oil and to control the Libyan land, to colonise Libya once again,’ he said in a televised speech before a loyal audience.


‘This is impossible, impossible. We will fight until the last man and last woman to defend Libya from east to west, north to south,’ Gaddafi told his supporters who punctuated the address with cheers of support and declarations of loyalty.

The Libyan leader said he was willing to discuss constitutional and legal change without arms or chaos and was ready to talk with Al Qaeda – who he blamed for the turmoil – if they had demands.


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