Seif said the resolution was 'unfair' and denied widespread reports that his father's troops were killing civilians as they sought to wrest back cities seized by rebels in recent weeks. -- PHOTO: AFP
WASHINGTON - A SON of Libya strongman Muammar Gaddafi on Friday said his family was 'not afraid' after the United Nations approved air strikes against forces loyal to his father's regime.
'We are in our country and with our people. And we are not afraid,' Seif al-Islam Gaddafi told ABC News Nightline from the Libyan capital Tripoli.
'We will not be afraid. Come on! We will not be afraid. I mean, you are not helping to the people if you are going to bomb Libya, to kill Libyans. You destroy our country. Nobody is happy with that.' The UN Security Council on Thursday approved military action to halt the Gaddafi regime's assault on rebels, clearing the way for air strikes, with the first bombing raids possible within hours.
Seif said the resolution was 'unfair' and denied widespread reports that his father's troops were killing civilians as they sought to wrest back cities seized by rebels in recent weeks.
'It was unfair because, as you know, from the beginning we told to everybody there were no air strikes against civilians, no bombing of civilian districts or demonstrations.' 'Have we seen a single civilian casualty? Even the terrorists or the armed people, they just surrender. So there was no bloodshed in Libya.'
He also indicated that one of four New York Times reporters who went missing earlier this week while reporting on heavy fighting in eastern Libya had been arrested and would be released soon. -- AFP
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