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The 53-member African Union (AU) has disregarded the warrant issued for Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi the International Criminal Court (ICC). It says the by the ICC is an obstacle to peace in Libya. It also condemns the for Gaddafi’s arrest as being colonialism. AU Jean Ping said the ICC is "discriminatory" because it pursues Africans. He said the Hague-based court ignores committed by Western powers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim , saying: “The ICC is a European Guantanamo Bay. It's only against the African . It never deals the crimes committed by the United States of America."

Gaddafi remained defiant and raised the by promising he would attack Europe. In a announcement he urged NATO to halt its bombing campaign or seeing Libyan fighters descend on Europe “like a swarm of locusts or bees”. He said: “Retreat, you have no of beating this people…They can attack your homes… and your families, which will become military , just as you have transformed our…houses and children what you regard as legitimate military targets.” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded by Gaddafi should resign instead of issuing threats. “He should put the well- and the interests of his own people first and he should step down from ,” she said.