Gaddafi's son Saif is Defending his Father's Government

Breaking News is this that in a televised address to the Libyan nation on Sunday Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was given the task of defending his father's government after the worst unrest of the elder Gaddafi's four-decade rule.

Saif al-Islam accused the international media of exaggerating the number of deaths in the country. According to human rights groups more than 200 people have died over the past few days.

He told that we have had 14 deaths in Tripoli, 84 in Benghazi, so we see the mass media exaggerating. People from outside Libya, with co-ordination from some channels, talk as if they were in Libya. The day before yesterday I heard more than 250 people were killed and more than 180 injured. This was an unbelievable exaggeration, he told Libyan TV.
 Saif al-Islam admitted the authorities had made mistakes and we say also there were mistakes on both sides. The police and especially the unprepared army was mistaken and of course we have people who were angry and the army defending its position, its barracks and the people had the right to be angry, he said. Sailf also saif that Libya is not Egypt and it consists of tribes and clans. It is not societies with parties and so on. Everyone in Libya knows their duties. This could cause civil war and we will repeat the civil war of 1936. Libya is not Tunisia or Egypt and Libya has got oil, which has united the whole of Libya, and this was one of the main reasons Libya was united.