Quotes of the Day

Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi attends the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Food Security Summit in Rome in this November 16, 2009 file photo.
Thursday, Sep. 08, 2011

Open quoteThey are mercenaries, they are stray dogs. They are trying to seize our ancestral land from you but this is impossible.Close quote

  • MOAMMAR GADDAFI,
  • ousted Libyan leader, urging forces loyal to his former regime to fight rebels who control most of Tipoli; Gaddafi fled and has been in hiding since the capital's fall
Photo: Alessandro Di Meo / Pool / Reuters | Source: Reuters