Gadhafi: West Has Started Something it Cannot Control

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi warned on Thursday that the West has started something in Libya which it cannot control, the state news agency JANA reported.

"They have started something dangerous, something they cannot control. It will be out of their control no matter what methods of destruction they have at their disposal," Gadhafi said.

He was referring to the Western coalition led by Britain, France and the United States which launched a military campaign against Libya on March 19 to enforce a U.N. no-fly zone and to protect civilians.

Gadhafi specifically addressed, without naming them, "the leaders who decided to launch a second Crusader war between Christians and Muslims across the Mediterranean sea," saying they must resign.

He accused those leaders of causing death and destruction and said: "It is they who have been stricken with madness.

"They want to impose their strength and have destroyed mutual interests between the Libyan people and their own people ... They want to drag us back to medieval times," JANA quoted Gadhafi as saying.

"The solution is that they resign immediately and their people should find new leaders to replace them who will respect relations between peoples."

Several Western leaders have urged Gadhafi, who has been in power for more than four decades, to quit in the face of the deadly uprising against his iron-fisted rule.