Moamer Qadaffy... Custodian of Wheelus AFB for long 42 years ...
blamed al-Qaeda for all the unrest happening in the oil-rich country, and said that he is ready to enter in a dialogue with the Osama bin Laden--led group.
Qadaffy whose 42 years stay in power makes him the longest-serving ruler in Africa, envisaged his own side of the story over the uprising in Libya and said that the unrest started in in the country's third largest city, Bayda, where a sleeping terrorist cell penetrated the country gradually from Afghanistan and Iraq, only later to start executing people "Zarqawi-style" in the name of extremism.
He said that al-Qaeda beturbanned goons took Bayda as their starting point and moved to spread their terror all to the way to Benghzai where they started imposing curfew on people, who now according to him plead for help from the Libyan government to get rid of the al-Qaeda terror in their cities.
The Libyan president who vowed to fight 'to the last man and last woman', said that he is ready to discuss constitutional changes and law reforms, but without the use of violence and that he will give amnesty for those who decide to disband their weapons. He said that any foreign intervention will only cost thousands of Libyan lives.