Libyan leader Col Muammar Gadafy has warned Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama about supporting Israel.
"Obama offered $300 billion in aid to Israel and more military support. He avoided talking about Israel's nuclear weapons," he said during a rally outside Tripoli.
"We suspect he may fear being killed by Israeli agents and meet the same fate as [assassinated former US president John Fitzgerald] Kennedy when he promised to look into Israel's nuclear program," Gadafy said.
While the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons is widely assumed, Israeli officials have never admitted their existence and US officials have stuck to that line in public.
Gadafy said Obama should adopt a policy of supporting poor and weak peoples such as the Palestinians and be a friend of what he called free Arab peoples rather than US "agents" in the Arab world who, he said, were hated by their own people.
Speaking at a former US military base, the Libyan leader also said the Democratic presidential candidate would have an "inferiority complex".
"We fear that Obama will feel that, because he is black with an inferiority complex, this will make him behave worse than the whites."
Gadafy's ties with Western countries have improved since Libya announced it was scrapping weapons of mass destruction programs in 2003 and agreed to pay compensation for families of victims of bombings of US and French airliners.