In Libya, NATO war planes have bombed the headquarters of Libyan state TV as well as military barracks near Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s compound. The attacks came hours after NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he will ask NATO countries to step up their participation in the military campaign against Gaddafi. But after the attacks, Gaddafi remained defiant.
In a phone call to Libyan state television station, Gadhafi angrily denounced the rebels and said he would not surrender.
“We will not kneel!” he shouted in the phone call that appeared to also take state television by surprise. The sound was hastily adjusted to make it louder. “We will not surrender: we only have one choice — to the end! Death, victory, it does not matter, we are not surrendering!” he shouted.
“We are stronger than your weapons, than your planes. The voices of the Libyan people are stronger than the sounds of explosions,” he said, angrily calling the rebels who have risen up against him “bastards.”
Also, lawyers for Gadhafi’s daughter have filed lawsuits in Paris and Brussels over the alleged assassination in late April of four of the Libyan leader’s relatives in NATO bombing raids over Tripoli.
Attorneys for Aisha al-Gadhafi say the complaints do not name a specific defendant, though an official at the state prosecutor’s office in Brussels told The Associated Press that the text appears to target the Atlantic military alliance, which is based in the Belgian capital.
State prosecutors said Tuesday that officials are assessing whether the case can be admitted.