THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Col Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, has rejected UN-backed military intervention as an illegal act in a series of letters to world leaders.
The 68-year old told President Barack Obama that his forces were battling al-Qaeda within Libya.
A spokesman read out the letter at a press conference in Tripoli.
"Our son, the president of US," the letter to the US leader said. "I have said to you before that even if Libya and US enter into a war, God forbid. I have all love for you as a son.
"I have all Libyan people with me, and I am prepared to die and they are prepared to die with me. We are confronting al Qaeda and nothing more.
"What would you do if you found them controling American cities with the force of weapons." » | Damien McElroy, Tripoli | Saturday, March 19, 2011
