No Country For Old Man ?

Straits Times: Libyan uprising a 'foreign plot': Gaddafi's son



i like the way he point his finger ...



 CAIRO - SAIF al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of strongman Muammar Gaddafi, said on Monday that Libya was on the verge of civil war and branded the unprecedented protests against his father's rule a foreign plot.

Blaming Arab and African expatriates of fomenting unrest in the country, he said the violence was aimed at installing Islamist rule, in a speech on television.

'At this moment there are tanks being driven by civilians in Benghazi,' Libya's second city and an epicentre of the unprecedented protests against Muammar Gaddafi's iron-fisted rule for nearly 42 years.

'We have arms, the military has arms and the forces which want to destroy Libya have arms,' he said. Mr Gaddafi, speaking in Arabic, also pledged a new constitution and new liberal laws saying the north African country was at a crossroads.

In the tough-talking, finger-wagging speech, Mr Gaddafi's son blamed foreign media of inflating the death toll, which he repeatedly put at 84, and warned that any uprising would be ruthlessly suppressed.

'Libya is not Egypt, it is not Tunisia. There are no political parties in Libya,' he said. 'We will take up arms... we will fight to the last bullet,' he said. 'We will destroy seditious elements. If everybody is armed, it is civil war, we will kill each other.' Mr Gaddafi said his father would lead the fight against the protesters, adding: and 'we will win.'-- AFP

Well, at least in a democracy ( or a semblance of it ), there is room to step down and avoid bloodshed to the people.

But in an authoritarian regime, it will be bloody and a fight to the death...

21 February 2011