Despite his accepting a deal worked out by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to negotiate between him and Libyan rebels, Muammar Qaddafi renewed his attacks on the rebels Thursday, reportedly using planes to bomb targets in Brega, Ras Lanuf, and other locations.
In an address earlier, Qaddafi said that the whole reason for the rebels' uprising was to allow the West to get control of Libya's oil. “There is a conspiracy to control the Libyan oil and to control the Libyan land, to colonise Libya once again,” he said in a televised speech. “This is impossible, impossible. We will fight until the last man and last woman to defend Libya from east to west, north to south.”