( CNN ) -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi appeared Monday either to not know that demonstrators in cities throughout Libya are calling for an end to his rule or not accept it , according to excerpts from the interview , which a U.S. official described as `` delusional . '' `` No demonstration at all in the streets , '' he told ABC News and the BBC in a joint interview carried out at a restaurant in Tripoli , excerpts of which were posted on the BBC 's website . Told by the BBC 's Jeremy Bowen that he had seen demonstrators in the streets that morning , Gadhafi asked , `` Are they supporting us ? '' Gadhafi , wearing sunglasses and clad in brown tribal clothing , refused to accept the reporter 's assertion that they were not . `` No . No one against us . Against me for what ? '' He repeated his assertion that he is not president , but one of the people . `` They love me , all my people with me , they love me all . They will die to protect me , my people . No , no . '' Asked why his people had captured and were holding the nation 's second-largest city , Benghazi , Gadhafi said it was al Qaeda , not the Libyan people , who had done so . `` Al Qaeda , '' he said . `` They came from outside . '' ABC 's Christiane Amanpour , in a posting on the network 's website , said Gadhafi arrived for the interview in a small convoy of sedans accompanied by little security . `` Gadhafi said he wanted to speak to the press to get the truth out , and he spent more than an hour with us trying to put forth his side of the story , '' Amanpour wrote . He questioned how the international community could freeze his assets , impose sanctions and embargo arms sales based on media reports , and invited the United Nations to carry out an independent `` fact-finding mission , '' she reported . He vowed not to leave Libya , she reported , and denied having used force against his people . `` He seemed to be in complete denial about the protests against him , and that other big cities in Libya , particularly those in the east , had been taken by his opponents , '' she said . `` He simply rejected the notion that any walls were closing in on him . He denied he was besieged in the capital and said he would survive the current situation . '' He reiterated an assertion he first made last week that his opponents have been given hallucinogens by al Qaeda operatives , and he said he felt betrayed by the United States , which had lifted its sanctions on the country after Gadhafi agreed to give up his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction in 2003 . `` I 'm surprised that we have an alliance with the West to fight al Qaeda , and now that we are fighting terrorists they have abandoned us , '' he said , according to Amanpour . `` Perhaps they want to occupy Libya . '' Gadhafi called U.S. President Barack Obama a `` good man '' but said he might have been given `` misinformation . '' `` The statements I have heard from him must have come from someone else , '' Gadhafi said . U.S . Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice was unimpressed . `` It sounds , just frankly , delusional , '' she told reporters . `` And when he can laugh in talking to American and international journalists while he is slaughtering his own people , it only underscores how unfit he is to lead and how disconnected he is from reality . `` It makes all the more important the urgent steps that we have taken over the course of the last week on a national basis , as well as the steps that we 've taken collectively through the United Nations and the Security Council , and we 're going to continue to keep the pressure on . '' She called on Gadhafi `` to step aside to prevent further bloodshed and to allow the Libyan people to have a government that is responsive to their aspirations . ''
NEW : `` It sounds , just frankly , delusional , '' says the United States ambassador . `` They love me , all my people with me , '' Obama says . `` No demonstration at all in the streets , '' he tells BBC and ABC in a joint interview . Gadhafi `` a good man '' but misinformed .