MOSCOW - Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi wants to destroy the capital of Tripoli when the rebels controlled the city. Similarly, the Russian envoy said Michail Margelov in the newspaper Izvestia.
According to Russian diplomats, Libya's prime minister told him that if the rebels held the town, the regime would launch a rocket attack and blow up the city.
Michail Margelov visit to Tripoli last June and met Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi. Margelov believed Qaddafi had indeed committed suicide plan for himself and his regime.