Seif al-Islam Calls on Bulgaria to Send Observers to Libya

Politics » DIPLOMACY | March 9, 2011, Wednesday // 09:43
Bulgaria: Seif al-Islam Calls on Bulgaria to Send Observers to Libya Seif al-Islam, the suave, western-educated second son of the Libyan dictator, recently slammed foreign media for distorting the gravity of the situation in the country. Photo by EPA/BGNES

Seif Al-Islam, the son of Libyan embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi, has urged Bulgaria and the entire world to "support Libya against the terrorists" by sending observers.

"I call upon the entire world to send a mission to Libya in order to assess the facts, I appeal to Bulgaria to send such a mission as well," Seif al-Islam said in a telephone interview for Bulgarian Trud daily.

According to him there is no opposition in Libya, just a self-proclaimed council of ten people, who represent no one else but themselves.

“My friend, they are nobody. No one knows them. They are anonymous, we do not know them except for two people, who were former ministers. They used to work for us before. Now they are jumping on the board of the other ship.”

“These terrorists are organized in armed militias. They fight and destroy everything. And besides they kill innocent people. That's the reason why the whole world should support Libya against the terrorists, not the other way round,” he stressed.

Seif al-Islam, the suave, western-educated second son of the Libyan dictator, who is the best known of his children, recently slammed foreign media for distorting the gravity of the situation in the country and warned the EU faces an Islamist menace if the regime of his father collapses.

"If the Europeans do not assist us, Libya could become the Somalia of the Mediterranean," he said on the France 2 TV channel. "There will be pirates off the coast of Sicily, Crete, and Lampedusa. There will be millions of migrants, the terror will be at your door."

He noted: "We continue to regard President Sarkozy [of France] as our friend and a friend of Libya. We were received there many times. He welcomed my father in Paris." He added: "When your regime is strong, everybody kowtows to you. But when things collapse, everybody says 'Bye-bye. See you'."

Seif al-Islam was at the heart of the complex negotiations over the Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor freed by Libya in July 2007 following the intervention of French President Sarkozy.

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