The Libyan leader said French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has officially recognised the rebel Libyan National Council and called for targeted airstrikes, had a “mental disorder”…

“I was really shocked by the attitude of my European friends,” he told the newspaper. “They have damaged and endangered a series of major accords on security that were in their interests and the economic cooperation that we had.”

Asked about his relations with Berlusconi, previously his closest friend in Europe, he said: “I am so shocked, I feel betrayed, I don’t even know what to say to Berlusconi.”