Muammar Al Khadafi

Embattled Colonel Gaddafi, faced with an arrest warrant from the ICC, western backed rebels, and a bombing campaign which is reducing large parts of Libya to rubble, has warned the West that further military action will result in attacks on Europe.

In a recorded message, broadcast on state TV and announced over loudspeakers, Gaddafi threatens that "If you do not stop your military actions and do not leave the Libyan people in peace, it will be a catastrophe for you. We are able to penetrate into Europe like locusts, like bees to respond the aggressors with their own methods. These people will bring the battle into Europe and then your homes, offices and families will become the lawful targets"

In response, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, said that Gaddafi should put the interests of his people first and step down. No shock there.

Gaddafi does have a point, the borders in Europe really aren't up to much. Indeed, would be attackers are probably already lurking in council houses somewhere in the UK, only taking time out from plotting terrorism in order to head down to the DSS and pick up their giros.

Our involvement in bombing parts of Libya back into the stone age, not to mention imposing regime change at gunpoint, really isn't doing a lot to make Britain safer.

What is also interesting to note is that, as recently as 2009, Hillary Clinton met with one of Gaddafis sons in Washington DC, and proclaimed that "We deeply value the relationship between the United States and Libya".

It doesn't take a lot of digging around on the internet to find photographs from the same period showing the usual suspects such as Tony Blair and Barack Obama, all proudly wearing those crocodile smiles and shaking Colonel Gaddafis hand.

Back then he was seemingly a partner in the so called war on terror, someone we could do business with. How quickly things change in the world of politics and warmongering it seems, from feted friend to three quarters of the West doing their best to make sure he ends up dead.

One really might begin to wonder if our intervention in Libya has much more to do with Gaddafis threat to nationalise the Libyan oil industry, and that the whole bringing democracy and protecting civilians rhetoric is nothing more than a smokescreen.

But, whatever the reason, the simple fact is that our involvement in Libya is not going to do us any favours. We're busily making enemies everywhere, the threat of terrorism is ever with us now, and the terrorists are already here.

We are fighting in multiple, endless wars which will see us having to prop up puppet regimes for decades, and we will see blood on our streets as a result. Gaddafis threat may be the hollow words of a leader facing the grave, or they may have substance, but sooner or later the people of Britain will inevitably reap the terrifying harvest of the wars which our politicians have decided to involve us in.