Col Gaddafi writing to President Obama will raise some hopes in London and Washington that the pressure created by nearly three weeks of attacks on his forces is beginning to tell
By Alex Spillius, Washington
US officials said that in the rambling, three-page letter the Libyan leader referred to the US president as "our son", and said that his country had been hurt more morally than physically by the bombings. He also repeated his claim that his domestic enemies were members of al-Qaeda.
Referring to the new background role of the US air force, Jana, the official Libyan news agency, said that "the leader of the revolution [Gaddafi] sent on Wednesday a message to US president Barack Obama after the United States withdrew from the aggressive, colonialist coalition crusading against Libya".
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