Libyan women among the Libyans expressing support for the Libyan leader after Friday prayers in Tripoli's Green Square

For the second successive Friday, Libyan leader Muammar Al Qathafi lashed out on Friday at those seeking to push him from power, warning in an audio message broadcast on Libyan state TV that NATO and his other enemies would be trampled "under the feet of the Libyan masses". He again threatened an attack on Europe as revenge against the NATO-led attacks against him and his regime.

He again threatened to send hundreds of Libyans to become 'martyrs' in Europe. “Hundreds of Libyans will martyr in Europe. An eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. But we will give them a chance to come to their senses,' Al Qathafi said.

He also said he will press charges against NATO and the European Union, and vowed to 'liberate Europe from imperialist nations and defeat the aggressors.

In the message Al Qathafi relayed to thousands of his supporters in Sabha, some 750 km south of capital Tripoli, he demanded that NATO stop carrying out air strikes against the government troops and to leave the Libyans to solve their own problems themselves. He said NATO is wrong to think it can topple the Libyan leadership.

The Libyan leader went on to say that his leadership is based on the Libyan people, not himself, and will not collapse under NATO attack.

He said that, "the gathering of more than a million people is a new message to Europe, to the crusaders and colonialists, the leadership does not belong to Al Qathafi, it is the people's government and the people will not give up an inch of its land or bow down to invaders."

In the Libyan capital, Tripoli, meanwhile, thousands once again rallied in the Green Square. They first gathered for mass prayers under tents set up to shield them from the hot mid-day sun for mass prayers and also a show of support for the Libyan leader.

The gathering follows a similar show last week when another large pro-government demonstration there, showed that Al Qathafi can still muster significant support in his stronghold Tripoli.

With his voice rising to a shout, Al Qathafi warned that all those challenging his regime would be defeated. "The enemies of the masses will fall under the feet of the masses, under the marching of the masses. The collaborators and traitors will fall - east and west - and NATO will fall under the feet of the Libyan masses, under the feet of the free Libyan people!"

The Libyan leader has not been seen publicly in recent weeks, apparently not to let the alliance know where he is staying, thus avoid being targeted by NATO air Strikes.

After the audio-message on Friday evening, Al Qathafi's supporters in Tripoli sang pro-Al Qathafi slogans of support, waved green flags and carried portraits of the leader. Some of them even celebrated by letting out bursts of gunfire.

The imam leading the prayers urged Libyans to stop fighting one another. The said that Western nations had intervened in Libya's civil war because they were after the country's oil.

"Pray for a victory over NATO," he told worshippers, adding that "God will punish those who brought NATO here" - an apparent reference to rebel leaders based in the eastern city of Benghazi.

To rebels in Benghazi and eastern Libya which they control, the imam warned: "Distrust the traitors, they want to sell the country to the crusaders and enemies of God. Do not have confidence in them and learn the lesson from the invasion of Iraq" led by the United States in 2003.