Libyan embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi threatened on Friday to take the fight in Libya to Europe in revenge for the NATO-led military campaign against him.

Libyan embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi threatened on Friday to take the fight in Libya to Europe in revenge for the NATO-led military campaign against him.

In an audio message broadcast on Libyan television, Gaddafi said: “Hundreds of Libyans will martyr in Europe. I told you it is eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. But we will give them a chance to come to their senses”.
"You will regret it, NATO, when the war moves to Europe," he said to a crowd of about 50,000 people in the desert town of Sabha, about 800 km south of Tripoli.

"The Libyan people have no problem; the colonial powers are the ones who have a problem. They want to control our oil. They are jealous because God gave us the gift of oil," Gaddafi added.

"We do not fear them. We have no choice but to resist, become martyrs and fight on till the end."
"How can we allow such meddling when we see what happened in beloved Iraq and Afghanistan?” Gaddafi wondered.

CLASHES ON GROUND
On the other hand, opposition fighters on the ground took fresh casualties, after advancing on two fronts in the past two weeks against Gaddafi's forces.

At least six fighters were killed and 17 injured on Friday on the frontline near Misrata, on Libya's Mediterranean coast, according to local medical workers.
They had come under heavy artillery fire from Gaddafi's forces.

A rebel sympathizer in Misrata told the Reuters news agency that opposition forces had been moving closer to neighboring Zlitan, one of a chain of government-controlled towns blocking their advance to Tripoli.

As they advanced, pro-Gaddafi troops inside the city fired rounds of explosives to block their progress, the sympathizer said in an e-mail.