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Gaddafi
plans to blow up Tripoli if captured
Thursday July 14, 2011 07:50:08 PM,
IANS
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London: Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi has a "suicide plan" to blow up the capital city
of Tripoli if it comes into the hands of rebels, Russia's special
envoy to Libya has said.
Mikhail Margelov, who recently met Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi
al-Mahmudi told Russia's Izvestia daily: "The Libyan premier told
me - if the rebels seize the city, we will cover it with missiles
and blow it up."
"I imagine that the Gaddafi regime does have such a suicidal
plan," he said
The Libyan leader "still had plentiful supplies of missiles and
ammunition", according to the Telegraph.
Margelov - who also net senior Libyan officials - questioned
reports that Gaddafi could be running out of arms.
He said Gaddafi had "still not used" a single surface-to-surface
missile.
"Tripoli theoretically could lack ammunition for tanks, cartridges
for rifles. But the colonel has got plenty of missiles and
explosives," he was quoted as saying.
Russia abstained from a vote on a UN Security Council resolution
in March that opened the way for foreign involvement in the Libyan
conflict.
Gaddafi's regime has accused NATO of killing more than 1,100
civilians.
His regime said it was seeking to prosecute NATO chief Anders Fogh
Rasmussen in Libyan courts for "war crimes".
"As NATO secretary general, Rasmussen is responsible for the
actions of this organisation which has attacked an unarmed people,
killing 1,108 civilians and wounding 4,537 others in bombardment
of Tripoli and other cities and villages," prosecutor General
Mohamed Zekri Mahjubi said in Tripoli.
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