Libya will hold up to 300 al-Qaeda members in jail indefinitely after they have completed their prison terms to stop them staging fresh attacks, said Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

'These people are heretics. They are followers of (Osama) Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri. They killed a number of civilians and police,' Gaddafi told a gathering of his top legislative body, referring to al-Qaeda's two global commanders. 'It is a necessity to keep them in prison. They are very dangerous as they are ready to resume killing people in our streets here or travel to Algeria or Egypt or elsewhere to stage attacks,' he added. According to a report on the IoL site, a Libyan civic activist involved closely in negotiations between jailed Islamists and the government said he believed that the reconciliation talks would continue, but that Gaddafi was making clear it would be on his terms.
Full report on the IoL site