Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour.

Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.

The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.