Tripoli, July 2 (ANI): Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has warned to carry out attacks in Europe against "homes, offices, families," unless NATO halts its airstrikes against his regime in Libya.
Gaddafi delivered the warning in a telephone message played to thousands of supporters gathered in the main square of the capital Tripoli, Fox News reports.
Speaking from an unknown location, Gaddafi, who is sought by the International Criminal Court for a brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters, warned that the Libyans could take revenge for NATO bombings.
"These people (the Libyans) are able to one day take this battle ... to Europe, to target your homes, offices, families, which would become legitimate military targets, like you have targeted our homes," he said.
"We can decide to treat you in a similar way," he said of the Europeans. "If we decide to, we are able to move to Europe like locusts, like bees. We advise you to retreat before you are dealt a disaster," Gaddafi added.
A series of airstrikes were carried out by NATO following the uprising aginst the dictator's regime in Libya, in which one of Gaddfi's son was killed while the dictator himself managed a narrow escape.
Meanwhile, U.S. State Department spokesman, Mark Toner, has said that his country would take Gaddafi's threat of attacks seriously, as his regime had carried out such actions in the past, an indication to the Lockerbie bombings in 1986.
Toner, however, did not reveal whether there is any intelligence that suggest that Gaddafi's regime still has the capability to carry out such attacks.
"This is an individual who's obviously capable of carrying these kinds of threats, that's what makes him so dangerous, but he's also someone who's given to overblown rhetoric," he added. (ANI)
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