Seif Al-Islam, a son of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi long regarded as his successor, said in an interview published Monday in The Washington Post that the loyal forces had committed "no crime" against the Libyan people. "I can not accept that the army had fired on civilians. This has never happened and never will," he said.
"It's just like the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," he said. "They said weapons of mass destruction, weapons of mass destruction, weapons of mass destruction. Go attack Iraq. Civilians, civilian, civilians. Go attack Libya. It's the same thing." Seif al-Islam has also ruled that the U.S.
president, Barack Obama had the wrong target. "We want the Americans to send a mission of inquiry to establish what happened in Libya. We want that Human Rights Watch came and establish what really happened (...). We do not fear the International Criminal Court. We are convinced that he had committed no crime against our people, "he argued.
At the outbreak of insurgency in February, Seif al-Islam had promised a "civil war" and "rivers of blood", while holding out the reforms. Like his father, he said the rebels were infiltrated by Al Qaeda, rejecting accusations that doctors, foreign journalists and civilians have been targeted by fire from loyalist forces.
Once the "terrorists" will be expelled from Misrata and rebels in Benghazi, Seif al-Islam claims that the powers granted to his father will be supervised by a constitution. He had himself proposed in 2007 a program of reforms, including freedom of the press and the development of a constitution.
But he had encountered the reluctance of the regime's hardliners, who was forced to throw in the towel. 
"It's just like the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," he said. "They said weapons of mass destruction, weapons of mass destruction, weapons of mass destruction. Go attack Iraq. Civilians, civilian, civilians. Go attack Libya. It's the same thing." Seif al-Islam has also ruled that the U.S.
president, Barack Obama had the wrong target. "We want the Americans to send a mission of inquiry to establish what happened in Libya. We want that Human Rights Watch came and establish what really happened (...). We do not fear the International Criminal Court. We are convinced that he had committed no crime against our people, "he argued.
At the outbreak of insurgency in February, Seif al-Islam had promised a "civil war" and "rivers of blood", while holding out the reforms. Like his father, he said the rebels were infiltrated by Al Qaeda, rejecting accusations that doctors, foreign journalists and civilians have been targeted by fire from loyalist forces.
Once the "terrorists" will be expelled from Misrata and rebels in Benghazi, Seif al-Islam claims that the powers granted to his father will be supervised by a constitution. He had himself proposed in 2007 a program of reforms, including freedom of the press and the development of a constitution.
But he had encountered the reluctance of the regime's hardliners, who was forced to throw in the towel.
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