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Mu'ammar Qaddafi Urges Suicide Bombings

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Libyan leader Mu'ammar Qaddafi is urging his people to become suicide bombers as the best defense against an attack on his country by the U.S. or any other major power.

In a rambling New Years Day address recently translated by the Middle Eastern Media Research Institute, the Libyan strongman told his people:

"We don't need missiles, airplanes, tanks, or cannon in order to fight in Palestine or Iraq . . . If the enemy is a superpower like NATO, America, Russia or China, which occupies Libya, I will not fight it with tanks, missiles or cannons. I will fight it with explosives belts, car bombs and Kalashnikovs."

Qaddafi continued:

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  "If every Libyan is booby-trapped, every car is booby-trapped, every house is booby-trapped and every road is booby-trapped - the enemy will not be able to survive. The enemy will be unable to use their nuclear bombs, their airplane carriers or their inter-continental missiles. They will not be able to use them against people who booby-trap themselves, and fight the enemy."

Moments later, however, the erratic dictator called himself "a liberal" and insisted that he agreed with the U.S. on ridding the world of terrorism.

"Right now, I have nothing against America, except for the fact that it opposes the Palestinian people, and is destroying Iraq. Apart from this, America and I agree on everything . . . . Now America is saying that the oppressive, theocratic regimes that exploit religion are terrorist regimes. It has stopped supporting these regimes in order to topple them. So America and I agree these theocratic regimes must be fought."

But in the next breath Qaddafi added:

"We oppose all types of terrorism. When I say 'all types,' I'm referring to terrorism of fleets, of WMDs, and terrorism by individuals . . . America has said it is against WMDs. I canceled the WMD program, and I demand that America cancel its own WMD program, and that Israelis be disarmed of their WMDs, instead of the [American] silence in their case."

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