For all the Non-Arabs who could not enjoy the bless of watching Saif AlQaddhafi's address yesterday, following are highlights from it:
"Our spirits are high and the leader, Muammar Gaddafi, is leading the battle in Tripoli and we are behind him, as is the Libyan army.
"We will keep fighting until the last man standing, even to the last woman standing ... We will not leave Libya to the
Italians or to the
Turks
... Our spirits are high.
"Muammar Gaddafi is not Zine al-Abidine or Mubarak. [He is not] a traditional ... leader.
"There are tens of thousands of Libyans who are flocking to Tripoli from all over Libya to defend Tripoli, Libya and Muammar Gaddafi. This is no secret. It is known that there are buses on all coastal roads coming from all Libyan cities.
"There is also the army ... The army is still well and capable. The army now will play a key role to enforce security and restore things back to order ... A firm stance is required. The Libyan army is not the Egyptian or the Tunisian army.
"Our army will be in Libya, and Muammar Gaddafi will be in it until the last moment ... We will eradicate them [enemies] all."
"There were some planning errors. Errors from the police ... and the army, which was not equipped and prepared to confront angry people and ... to defend its premises, weapons and ammunition.
"Each party has its own version of the story. But the unfortunate bottom line is that sons of Libya have died. This is the tragedy."
He said he agreed with and understood the "clear political agenda and demands" by
political organisations, trade unions and lawyers, whom he said were behind the events in eastern Libya.
"These do not represent a problem," he said. "We understand and agree with their opinions."
He said that only a fraction of the population was causing the unrest in the country, including that in Benghazi.
"They [the protesters] have started by attacking army camps, have killed soldiers, officers ... and taken weapons.
"The security forces ... have arrested dozens in Libya who unfortunately were among our brother Arabs and among the African expatriates ... who were used in these events at these times to create problems ... Some
wealthy [businessmen] and tradesmen spent millions on them to use these people.
"There are groups that want to rule; there are groups that want to form the state in eastern Libya and rule ... in Benghazi and al-Bayda ...
"There are groups that have formed a government in Benghazi and groups that have set up an Islamic emirate in al-Bayda ... and another person who declared himself to be the ruler of the Islamic Republic of Darna.
"They now want to transform Libya into a group of [Islamic] emirates – small states – and even [cause] separatism. They have a plot. Unfortunately, our brother Arabs [allowed] their media, their stations and the inflammatory coverage."
"The story is extremely dangerous ... And here I would like to draw to your attention [the fact] that Libya is not Tunisia or Egypt.
"Libya, unlike Tunisia and Egypt, is about tribes, clans and alliances. Libya does not have a civil society or political parties.
"Libya has oil, and it is oil that has unified Libya ... Who has the ability to manage oil in Libya? Where will the National Oil Company be based? In Tripoli ... al-Bayda, or Sabha? How can we split the oil? Where will we get the money to spend on our children?
"Do you expect the Libyans, if partition occurs or if a civil war occurs ... to reach an agreement on how to share oil within a week, a month, two or three years?
"This oil will be burned by thugs, criminals, gangs and tribes, and there will be major and bloody conflicts over it; and in the end no Libyan will end up with this oil, because it is in the central and southern parts of Libya, in the middle of the desert. Three quarters of our population are based in the western area.
"Your children tomorrow might not go to schools, nor universities. We will not be able to find flour to eat; you will not find money in the banks; your savings will be gone.
"Today, we are facing a major and historic test. I will put it frankly, even the thugs, the delinquents, now have tanks and machine guns. They were stolen.
"Today we are at a crossroads ... We either tell ourselves, 'We are Libyans, and this is our country. We want ... freedom, democracy and real reform, this and that, and this has been planned and agreed upon and was supposed to be done at the forthcoming general congress assembly; [or] we will all seek the judgment of weapons. Instead of mourning 84, we will be mourning hundreds of thousands ... And the oil will stop.
We will not be eating a loaf of bread.
"So I tell you that before we use weapons as a decider and we enter a civil war and total chaos ... tomorrow we conduct a historic national initiative ... to call for a general people's congress with a clear agenda, which is to adopt a battery of laws initially agreed upon: the press law, the civil society – civilised laws, new laws ... to widen freedoms, to cancel many of the existing hindrances, the silly existing punishments, and to initiate a national dialogue on a Libyan constitution."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/21/gaddafi-son-muammar-libya