Mikhail Margelov, in an interview with the Russian Izvestia daily, said: "The Libyan premier told me: if the rebels seize the city, we will cover it with missiles and blow it up."
Mr Margelov met Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi last month.
"I imagine that the Gaddafi regime does have such a suicidal plan," he added, saying that Gaddafi still had plentiful supplies of missiles and ammunition.
But Mr Margelov, who has had rare access to senior Libyan officials, questioned reports that Gaddafi could be running out of arms in the drawn-out conflict.
Gaddafi had still not used a single surface-to-surface missile, he argued.
"Tripoli theoretically could lack ammunition for tanks, cartridges for rifles. But the colonel has got plenty of missiles and explosives."
Mr Margelov met the Libyan prime minister on June 16 in Tripoli after holding talks in Benghazi earlier the same month. He has not met Gaddafi himself.
Russia abstained from a vote on a March UN Security Council resolution that opened the way for foreign involvement and has since criticised the campaign – particularly arms drops by France.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday for talks on Libya, where Lavrov sought to play down differences between the countries.
However, the Russian foreign ministry said earlier Wednesday that Moscow would not take part in talks on Libya later this week in Turkey, which has also seen itself as a mediator in the conflict.
Col Gaddafi's regime meanwhile accused Nato of killing more than 1,100 civilians as rebels repulsed an attack by forces loyal to the strongman on a key gateway to Tripoli.
The report came a day after the rebels recaptured Gualish, their launch pad for a planned assault on Tripoli, and an insurgent commander downplayed talk of a political solution, saying Gaddafi refuses to quit.
His regime said on Wednesday it was seeking to prosecute Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Libyan courts for "war crimes" over the alliance's air strikes.
"As Nato secretary general, Rasmussen is responsible for the actions of this organisation which has attacked an unarmed people, killing 1,108 civilians and wounding 4,537 others in bombardment of Tripoli and other cities and villages," prosecutor General Mohamed Zekri Mahjubi told foreign journalists in Tripoli.
Apart from war crimes, Mr Mahjubi accused Mr Rasmussen of trying to kill Gaddafi, "deliberate aggression against innocent civilians" and of "the murder of children."
Also, the Nato chief stood accused of "trying to overthrow the Libyan regime" and replace it with a rebel movement under its control to "take over the wealth" of oil-rich Libya.
Gaddafi is wanted by The Hague-based International Criminal Court for atrocities committed in a crackdown by his forces on pro-democracy protests that erupted in mid-February.
taken from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8636883/Libya-Col-Gaddafi-has-suicide-plan-to-blow-up-Tripoli.html
Mr Margelov met the Libyan prime minister on June 16 in Tripoli after holding talks in Benghazi earlier the same month. He has not met Gaddafi himself.
Russia abstained from a vote on a March UN Security Council resolution that opened the way for foreign involvement and has since criticised the campaign – particularly arms drops by France.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday for talks on Libya, where Lavrov sought to play down differences between the countries.
However, the Russian foreign ministry said earlier Wednesday that Moscow would not take part in talks on Libya later this week in Turkey, which has also seen itself as a mediator in the conflict.
Col Gaddafi's regime meanwhile accused Nato of killing more than 1,100 civilians as rebels repulsed an attack by forces loyal to the strongman on a key gateway to Tripoli.
The report came a day after the rebels recaptured Gualish, their launch pad for a planned assault on Tripoli, and an insurgent commander downplayed talk of a political solution, saying Gaddafi refuses to quit.
His regime said on Wednesday it was seeking to prosecute Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Libyan courts for "war crimes" over the alliance's air strikes.
"As Nato secretary general, Rasmussen is responsible for the actions of this organisation which has attacked an unarmed people, killing 1,108 civilians and wounding 4,537 others in bombardment of Tripoli and other cities and villages," prosecutor General Mohamed Zekri Mahjubi told foreign journalists in Tripoli.
Apart from war crimes, Mr Mahjubi accused Mr Rasmussen of trying to kill Gaddafi, "deliberate aggression against innocent civilians" and of "the murder of children."
Also, the Nato chief stood accused of "trying to overthrow the Libyan regime" and replace it with a rebel movement under its control to "take over the wealth" of oil-rich Libya.
Gaddafi is wanted by The Hague-based International Criminal Court for atrocities committed in a crackdown by his forces on pro-democracy protests that erupted in mid-February.
taken from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8636883/Libya-Col-Gaddafi-has-suicide-plan-to-blow-up-Tripoli.html
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